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.

  • Hal-5700X
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    -61 year ago

    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?

    • 8bitguy
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      81 year ago

      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.

    • foo
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      81 year ago

      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
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        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.

        • digdug
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          41 year 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.

    • @sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year 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