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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 100 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

Absolutely not. Brave is a bloated mess with feature creep and stealing advertisements. It's ran by a right wing nut job that got fired from Mozilla after publicly stating he hated gay marriage. And the greatest sin of them all: it's chromium.

No idea why people consider them private over Firefox. Literally just install uBlock Origin on Firefox and you'll have a way better experience.

[–] Notnotmike@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Do you have a source for the founder claims? I'm no fan of Brave but that's an intense back story if true

[–] mikarv@someone.elses.computer 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Notnotmike pretty well-known! also OKCupid started warning Mozilla users about it based on HTTP headers which was an interesting form of protest https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26868536

[–] Notnotmike@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I read about that in the article the other commenter posted! The article also mentioned that, once he was removed as CEO, some right-wing websites, namely something called "RedState", just outright blocked FireFox users in a counter-protest.

"We wanted to remind people that the totalitarian impulse of the Mozilla corporation is real," said right-wing site RedState on April 8 after blocking access by Firefox users.

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