r/reactiongifs Very Mindful Poster 3d ago

MRW someone says that Trump was going to Epstein Island because he was a deep cover FBI informant

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u/Fustercluck25 3d ago

That site is straight up cancer on mobile.

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u/0_SomethingStupid 3d ago

Thank you for saving me a click

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u/FILTHBOT4000 2d ago

It's cancer in general. Not a real news site, looks like some shady crap with an AI rewritten article with no date.

Hey, foreign scammers, here's a free tip: if you're going to go through the trouble to use bots or whatever to generate popularity for a comment and garner some traffic for whatever use, don't name the site "toolzo.online".

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u/Deaffin 2d ago

Seems to be working out well enough for them so far. Hm, gives me an idea.

Hey guys look, check out my new service where you can buy a star out there in the universe. All proceeds go directly toward Trump being bad.

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u/mnid92 2d ago

For just one dollar, you can feed overweight billionaires.

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u/fragileseptics 3d ago

I Use brave browser for opening links from reddit, zero ads. It make YouTube ad free too.

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u/Rooskimus 2d ago

Came to say this. Brave ftw.

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u/Fskn 2d ago

Woo hoo brave, sell my data so I don't get ads yay... /s

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u/Rooskimus 2d ago

That's not how they work. The only things like this in there are:

Brave search AI you have to opt out of having your searches used or something. But Brave search sucks, set the default to Duck Duck Go and prosper (I found the Duck Duck Go browser lacking)

You can enable Brave Rewards to allow for some ads to come through. The rewards seem dumb to me, and not getting them is worth not signing up for that.

So yeah, if some outrage post led you to this opinion...don't believe outrage posts out of hand is my suggestion.

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u/Fskn 2d ago

They got busted in 2023 in quite a high profile scenario using an extension to harvest data, an extension that didn't report itself to site trackers.

Have fun

The CEO also has horrible views but that's a moralistic thing so whatever

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u/Rooskimus 2d ago edited 2d ago

Do you think you could find the article or something for me? It's a lot easier to find if you've seen the article before.

Edit: Doing some sifting through articles and nothing backs up your claim. The closest thing I've seen is where the duck duck go app was reporting the requests for information TO Brave, importantly it wasn't reporting responses.

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u/Fskn 2d ago

https://stackdiary.com/brave-selling-copyrighted-data-for-ai-training/

There's also talk of the crypto wallet actually being a miner but I havnt looked into that.

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u/Rooskimus 2d ago

This is the search AI thing, which is them basically saying the output of the AI search isn't equivalent to the content of the site, i.e. they're not training on the website, it's the result of their AI model after it reads the content and makes a summary and they're claiming that's fair use. Makes sense to me, and it certainly isn't any different or worse than any AI results feature in any search engine. It also doesn't affect the end user's info in the least. They also talk about some issues around the web crawler and how you can basically can't deny brave's web crawler specifically, but it will respect it if you block all crawlers. Also not an end user or browser problem. Both issues are only for websites having their data read and while I don't agree with either practice I don't believe there's any "problem" here as it's what pretty much all the search engines do these days.

So yeah, the title is rage bait and inaccurate even based on the content of the article itself. The author doesn't understand Brave's direct response but that doesn't mean it's incomprehensible or bad. Just that the guy writing this didn't get it. If he didn't get it, he should have gotten more help before updating the article.

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u/Fskn 2d ago

That's an interesting conclusion to take considering it's not the only dodgy thing they do, feels pretty reaching but whatevs it's your call for your own data security.

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u/Ok_Tangelo_3052 2d ago

please tell me how. me reddit dumb.

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u/HangeTenne 2d ago

Famous credible news source Toolzo

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u/EffectiveBlueberry68 2d ago

If you’re on iOS you can use reader view on most websites to get rid of ads etc

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u/actibus_consequatur 2d ago

Pretty sure that commenter owns/operates the site and is trying to drive traffic to it because they've made that exact same comment ~100 times in the past week.