I think we need all support we can get to fight Google on this, so I welcome Brave here actually.
Sorry for linking to idiotic Twitter, couldn’t find another link.
I think we need all support we can get to fight Google on this, so I welcome Brave here actually.
Sorry for linking to idiotic Twitter, couldn’t find another link.
Can you expand on the LGBT comment? I’m looking for a new browser and an anti LGBT organization would be a deal breaker for me.
Brendan Eich is vocally against gay marriage, it’s not a secret. Also Brave is fuckin SKETCHY. They’ve always come up with “creative” ways of making money, sometimes inserting affiliate links into their users’ searches, sometimes selling their data, other times getting into weird crypto schemes.
Every time somebody catches them doing something sketchy, they put out a big “OOPS SORRY THAT WAS AN ACCIDENT” statement, and their fanboys just forgive them and act like it’s no big deal. Then they troll Reddit (and now Lemmy) blindly repeating how great and privacy-focused Brave is.
The only browser worth your time is Firefox. If you insist on sticking with a Chromium-based browser (which is most of them, including Brave), then Arc is pretty damn cool.
Woah when were they caught selling user data, that would be a huge blow to them as a privacy focused browser that I’ve somehow never heard of.
The only thing I really found, based on a Google search, is that they sold copyrighted data to train AI models. Still bad, but for completely different reasons and that’s a bigger fish than just brave.
But maybe I didn’t find what the other commenter was thinking of.
Lol so it literally never happened. I guess it’s true that the biggest source of misinformation is random people on the internet.
Interesting. I’ll have to look into Arc.
Also lol, sounds like Apple Fanboys.
This right here. I am generally very open to new browsers and frankly I am okay with Edge and even chrome as long as their parent companies are open about what data they collect and how they use it. I just do not get the same thing with Brave, and the crypto link injection was the final nail for me. Their fan boys are a weird base.
Check the section labeled “Appointment to CEO and resignation” on Eich’s Wikipedia entry. He also expressed some COVID doubting nonsense during the pandemic. To my knowledge Brave doesn’t have an official stance on any of this, but it’s not a good look when the CEO does (or at least, did in the recent past).
With his position back then Brendan could make an impact making the world less hateful place to be yet he chose not to by supporting ban on gay marriage.
After the backlash he stepped down, he started a startup company that make web browser which is now known as Brave (brave choice of name for unapologetic homophobic).
Checkout waterfox, no complaints here after like 6 years; they even added a feature I requested within a week of the request.
I had no idea, but apparently the co-founder of Mozilla is also the creator of Brave and inventor of Javascript, and was removed from Mozilla after giving $1,000 to support anti-gay-marriage efforts. That’s quite a career.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mozilla-ceo-resignation-idUSBREA321Y320140403