Cybersecurity is a broken industry. We rely on products that were designed to be sold, not used. And the incentives are completely screwed up.
I made this video about all of the ways things are bad, how we accidentally make it worse, and why new technology won't fix it.
Just finished 007 First Light.
16hrs of playtime total
Pros
- The visuals were insane
- Voice acting was on point
- Combat felt very punchy and powerful
- Shooting felt satisfying
- Basically a full Bond movie
- Q lab was full of easter eggs!
Cons
- Some missions felt too hand holdy, and I wanted more freedom to explore.
- Some of the driving missions could have been better
- Would love Multiplayer
Overall I give the game a solid 9/10
A fresh Brave install in 2026: sponsored ad wallpapers on new tab page by default (opt out). Brave VPN, News, Talk, Leo (AI), Rewards and other revenue-milking bloat is advertised/pinned by default. Analytics and "phoning home" by default. Google as default search engine in most regions by default. Sponsored search engines like Russian Yandex in CIS countries by default: https://t.co/nCK7ZErytG
Brave has an ad branch that handles advertising within the browser: https://t.co/EwJwKKgWxq. Brave does on-device ad targeting based on cohorts and interests, just like what Chrome used to do and what Google was largely hated for (remember FLoC?). This applies to additional (opt-in) rewarded ads, shipped as part of Brave.
Brave has injected referral IDs to crypto-related URLs entered into the omnibox in the past, intentionally, by design:
https://t.co/hovGMDz8Et
https://t.co/3wdWDEV85H
https://t.co/fo1mD75vAF
Brave also uses dark patterns to drive users away from turning off ads in their browser. For example, an article linked from the "opt out" button in the browser has a wall of text making excuses for ads before the actual steps needed to be taken to disable them: https://t.co/dka1EIMtbw
kind of hypocritical for brave to judge firefox for lesser bullshit, don't you think?
@theBlackKimchi@Jisko888@riotgames Ahh ok, thank you that makes it clearer.
Tho i feel taking the risk of bricking an innocent User in a false positive (no matter how rare) still feels weird to me
@Jisko888@riotgames I am refering to mainly these parts of the quoted post "firmware becomes completely unusable, even without the game running or after uninstalling Vanguard. Only fix is a full OS reinstall." and "[...] which permanently breaks the majority of almost all SATA/NVMe firmwares"
1. It hasn't cured cancer
2. If artificial intelligence software does cure cancer, it will not be the LLMs and image generators that that "anti-ai" crowd are complaining about. You know this and are being intentionally obtuse