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Re: Brave Origin

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Post by ImJamal »

I hope this works out well and Mozilla takes notice. I've never understood why Mozilla doesn't at least take donations for Firefox.

Re: Brave Origin

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Post by guywithahat »

theNotFractured wrote: post #3

Paying for your browser is crazy when open-source ones like firefox and soon ladybird exist.

I disagree; I use my browser everyday, including for work. If I can instead pay a little money and have a better experience that makes sense to me, sort of like Kagi but for browsers.

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Post by wky »

Interesting that it’s paying to remove features. Seems reasonable considering it’s paying to get an officially supported build, and if you’d rather not there’s probably a fork doing the same out there.

Edit: That it’s free (as in WinRAR?) on Linux is interesting; what would be the motive for doing that?

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Post by rpdillon »

mfro wrote: post #5

I have found literally 0 incentive to switch from firefox to anything else.

They've watered down their privacy promises quite a bit:

> Mozilla may also receive location-related keywords from your search (such as when you search for “Boston”) and share this with our partners to provide recommended and sponsored content. Where this occurs, Mozilla cannot associate the keyword search with an individual user once the search suggestion has been served and partners are never able to associate search suggestions with an individual user. You can remove this functionality at any time by turning off Sponsored Suggestions—more information on how to do this is available in the relevant Firefox Support page.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/firefox-deletes-...

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Post by Valodim »

theNotFractured wrote: post #3

Paying for your browser is crazy when open-source ones like firefox and soon ladybird exist.

People keep mentioning ladybird like it'll be a serious contender as a daily driver in the next 10 years. While I do think they're doing impressive work for a tech demo, they are a couple hundred person years behind on an incredibly big piece of software. how could they possibly catch up?
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