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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've seen a lot of discourse over which browsers we use and I myself have made the switch from brave to firefox. I still use brave as my search engine though, so... which do yall recommend? Is brave's engine necessarily bad to use? I personally like its ui/theme.

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[–] hal_5700X -5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Of course, the brave guy CEO is a piece of shit though. Full on covid conspiracy lab made Fauci pandemic ivermectin type stuff, believes that gay marriage should be illegal while donating to anti-gay orgs, and otherwise uses his position to further far right ideas. He also tries to fund weird micro nation projects with the goal of creating anarcho-capitalist heavens in the ocean. Think bioshock, but crypto bro. All around weird guy

Brendan Eich is a co-founder of Mozilla. So if you’re not going to use Brave because of him. How can you use Firefox?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Eich resigned Mozilla and started Brave over pressure from Mozilla because of his opposition to same sex marriage, and financial support to anti-same sex marriage intiatives.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Brendan Eich is not involved with Mozilla anymore.

He also created JavaScript though. So by your logic how can you use the web in general?

[–] hal_5700X -2 points 11 months ago

Brendan Eich is not involved with Mozilla anymore.

Yeah, but he's one of the co-founders. He did help make Mozilla.

He also created JavaScript though. So by your logic how can you use the web in general?

I'm not against using the stuff he made/helped to make. Because he keep his beliefs and his work separated.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does he profit off of Mozilla (which said profit is going to right-wing causes)?

[–] hal_5700X -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe. We don't know about the exit deal he got.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Okay, maybe a not-for-profit organization that he voluntarily resigned from gave him a golden parachute deal with perpetual royalties that's totally secret. We can never know ...

One thing we do know? Using Brave has a 100% chance of supporting him financially.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm not, not directly. I'm using the mullvad browser. However, even if I was using firefox that is part of a not-for-profit organization that he is no-longer part of where the money and success do not benefit him. This is different than using a browser whose success gives him money, which he then uses to support causes I am vehemently against.

If using brave did not support him I would accept an argument around my usage of it. It does however.

Apologies for the fact that you're getting downvoted, that is a reasonable question to ask