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mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

It’s always funny seeing the huge disconnect between Lemmy and Reddit on this one specific topic. On Reddit, Brave’s marketing was wildly successful. If you say anything negative about it, you’ll almost immediately be buried in downvotes. But here, it is known as a conservative cryptobro grift, so mentioning anything positive about it gets you attacked.

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ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
the moment that Brave stops working well is the moment I stop praising it.

unlike chrome and firefox, it’s easy to turn off the crap in brave, the options to turn those things off are right in plain sight and easy to figure out

I’m not so sure how politics got into a web browser with integrated adblocking though. Supposedly the creator of Brave was fired from mozilla for being a bigot. But no one who says that has ever been able to tell me what he said that was so horrible that he had to be fired. Which leads me to believe it’s either a flat out lie that didn’t happen at all or it was blown out of proportion

on top of that, Google’s war on adblockers is more than just blocking you from accessing youtube, there’s also lots of google-funded propaganda about the makers of adblocking software and the software its self. But it’s not just google funding that kind of propaganda it’s all the other malware companies funding it too.

what do I mean by “malware companies”? all online advertising is malware and blocking it should be considered part of any security setup

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- mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Supposedly the creator of Brave was fired from mozilla for being a bigot. But no one who says that has ever been able to tell me what he said that was so horrible that he had to be fired. Which leads me to believe it’s either a flat out lie that didn’t happen at all or it was blown out of proportion
  
  I mean, this was the second result on DuckDuckGo when I searched “Brave Browser Creator Bigot”. He donated in support of California’s Prop 8, which was an attempt to ban gay marriage by amending California’s constitution.
  
  From the article:
  
  In 2014, [Brandon Eich] was appointed as CEO of Mozilla Corporation, which immediately caused backlash from at least a few people inside Mozilla and many people outside the organization. Why was appointing Eich as CEO so controversial? It’s because he donated $1,000 in support of California’s Proposition 8 in 2008, which was a proposed amendment to California’s state constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Eich wrote a blog post defending himself in 2012, when the donation was initially discovered, where did not apologize and denied the donation made him a bigot…
  Brendan Eich quit after 11 days as CEO. He then went on to create Brave Software and obtain $2.5 million in early funding by late 2015, then another $4.5 million by mid-2016.
  Here’s a bonus fun fact: one of those early investors was Founders Fund, which is operated by billionaire Peter Thiel. He’s a regular campaign donor to far-right political candidates, and said in an essay that “I no longer think that freedom and democracy are compatible.”
  
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