Brave layoffs

Meanwhile, the US added 336,000 jobs in September, more than double the estimates.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-job-growth-beats-expec...

The article discusses the sectors for most of those jobs, which is hospitality. The sorts of jobs most people who visit this site are seeking remain in decline. IT unemployment is about double the rate of overall unemployment currently.

Of course they do. Who doesn't. I've still not been able to find a new job. The market, especially outside of the US is dead for experienced Product leads.

Interesting to see they are offering services that can either be in house or offloaded to another service provider.

They are oscillating between building their own search engine versus using Bing. And offering their own internal AI named Leo versus passing information to one of the many cloud provider APIs.

For Brave, difficult to claim privacy if they don't do all that in house. But it forces them out of their lane from building a browser to building all these services.

Kind of seems like they are becoming Google, which has always been the foil Brave has claimed to be fighting against.

No, it doesn't bode well =(. To be honest, I wonder if the webbrowser 'market' has been fundamentally broken ever since the Netscape days.

Effectively ever since IE broke Netscape's back, every single major web browser has been funded either off the back of other business units (IE, Chrome, Safari), or funded by search engine deals. No customer has actually had to really contemplate 'what is the value of a browser' in like 25 years. No one actually has a sense of how valuable a browser actually is (except through the perverse metric of how many ads can you serve to the user via default search...).

I think it's telling that all of Brave's new revenue streams aren't actually -from- their self-professed mission.