Brave Browser

[hebelwirkung]

The documentary isn't great - "The Social Dilemma", but it's worth watching, and these links may make me seem like a movie buff, but they're just links to possibly watch it – and other stuff.

Links for where to watch, who carries it, usually with paid subscriptions
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-social-network
https://reelgood.com/movie/the-social-dilemma-2020
https://watch.plex.tv/movie/the-social-dilemma
https://www.yidio.com/movie/the-social-dilemma/224020


Links to watch it, recommend for cordcutters, TVapp-cutters, and cheapskates.
https://fmovies.to/movie/the-social-dilemma-k37jw/1-1 Recommended for cheapskates
https://fmovies.name/ domains may change, year(s)
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https://dosmovies.com/film/The_Social_Dilemma
https://www.documentaryarea.com/video/T ... l+Dilemma/ Recommended
https://movie-web.app/search/movie Has it, but often provides the wrong movie.

Cheers

This is awesome! I am massively grateful for these links! Immediately used one of them - the one you "recommended for cheapskates"; there, and I'm not even blushing! - and just finished watching the documentary. Is it a great docu? Maybe some of it, especially when it starts connecting social media to civil war and the end of civilization, isn't as vonvincingly argued as one could wish, and some of the dramatized sections seem a little stilted here and there. Still, if you want a comprehensive overview of the type of problems we are being confronted with when it comes to social media and their social and political effects - then listen to guys like Jaron Lanier and particularly Tristan Harris, some of their contributions are chillingly thought-provoking. None of it is new, but more or less all of it offers rich food for thought, so that's a good thing.

So thanks again for taking the trouble and digging up all those links!

[hebelwirkung]

Other Chromium-based browser users have also objected to having to sign in, and with a little web searching, you should be able to discover how to manually download that extension's .crx file and where to place it so Brave finds it.

Yes, I'm sure that addon can be found and installed - but for me, this is now a point of principle. I wouldn't want to use a browser that wants to see my ID card before it lets me install an extension! Well, not as long as I have a choice anyway :-)

[davidy]

Not sure if this is on or off topic but... Having used flatpak a bit, I also use the Video Downloader ap in flatpak. I have no google accounts to speak of so other than throwing it the url it has never asked me to login. I am aware that certain videos google pretends to own they want you to login in order to watch, which of course I'll never do. I also do not use brave because it is a google creation in essence and for what it's worth I detest google.
There are certain aps that either do not work correctly or have bad behaviors in flatpak so I stick with either the ap images or the mx repo ones. Also I try to only use addons that I find are for security or are themsleves secure (some cannot be trusted imo). I also set all addons when possible to be ONLY manually updated, incl. ublock origin. Just wanted to say if you aren't using flatpaks, it can provide some worthy softwares. I just recently switched from the repo of Falkon to the flatpak version for instance. All my other browsers are the extract and run type.