The worrisome thing is that a remarkable number of smug, self righteous elitists share your disgusting views of how certain self-appointed betters should herd the rest of humanity along "correct" lines. It's been a disgusting bane of our species for millennia under different guises and it only shifts its talking points over time. Never mind that this minority is no less prone to all the human shittiness and stupidity that anyone else suffers, only more damaging because they apportion power for themselves over many more things.
I'm sorry, I didn't think I needed a /s at the end of this. I assumed it would be clearly understood to be a criticism of the parent's argument and not an endorsement of it.
Do another one, this time about free exchange of money and how people can't learn how to spend it only on approved things. Add something implying an equivalence between porn and terrorism.
Which is why the HN crowd buys Apple trinkets, and claims to use Brave, because it makes them feel good about their stance on privacy. Yet that same crowd abhors cryptocurrency, but doesn't seem to mind increasingly strict US reporting requirements of practically any meaningful monetary transaction.
Perhaps if all that tracking was instead sold to users as way of preventing countries from bypassing embargoes or to ensure nobody is learning how to order drugs online that we'd all abhor Brave for the energy that it wastes or bad behaviour it allows.
