Is Brave a glowop? - Cui bono?

[dick brain]

In a climate where Google is actively making its services worse on the grounds that there are no viable alternatives, why is a viable alternative allowed to exist? Better search, better AI, better adblocking, .onion support, etc.

We all know google subsidizes trannyfox because it's cheaper than dealing with antitrust laws, and trannyfox reciprocates by rolling out the same bullshit changes slightly slower, just like the Conservative party. But that strategy ceases to work when a viable alternative exists. So why doesn't Google just buy out Brave and gimp them too?

Is it really just a crypto scheme, or is something else going on?

 

[Dr. Eldon Tyrell]

@SCV :
Now you made me check. I guess we can trust Level 1 techs:

• All old 8/16bit x86 and clones
• WinChip 98
• VIA C3 92
• 386 and clones
• 486 and clones
• Pentium 1 (Non Pro) and clones based on the P5 architecture.

Not even even pentium pro... good to know my hypothetical, totally internet connected DooM machine is safe
...but too bad that you don't even need these fancy cache prediction exploits to fuck with windows 98se, XP or DOS...
Brb, scavenging for a 486 to turn into my new alpine + Lynx shitbox

Addendum:
Via C3 they said...

In addition to x86 instructions, VIA C3 CPUs contain an undocumented Alternate Instruction Set allowing lower-level access to the CPU and in some cases privilege escalation

Enjoy the "safe" e waste, my fellow shizos. I don't want to know what other, unknown memory holed exploits linger in ye olde pentiums when this exists.
'member all the "illegal instruction" errors? The good old days. when microsoft had to visibly stop you from fucking with intel's microcode because they just didn't know what could happen.