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Re: Brave Origin

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 sear…

you're really complaining that they're using location based keywords? Using a location based keyword to serve a relevant sponsored post isnt personal data. I swear mozilla haters just want it to die so they can use chrome guilt free.

That's just one example, the link I pointed to contains other examples.

Sent from LibreWolf, FWIW.

Re: Brave Origin

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post #15

I'd use Brave, and pay for it, if it wasn't running Blink. I know Gecko is a pain in the butt to use, but I'd rather not make Google's hegemony on the web stronger by using their code. Sorry Brendan, hopefully you'll look into Ladybird once it's more usable.

https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/1981097992477364231

There's no need for a "Sorry". On the other hand, Brave dying on the wrong hill does not help anyone. This isn't a "wreck other parts of the world so our slice of the smaller resulting pie is a bigger fraction" exercise of the sort seemingly playing out in the world right now. Gecko is not going to make a comeback by holding down a Chromium-based browser.

I'm a supporter of Ladybird.

Re: Brave Origin

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post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are very good reasons why you 501(c)(3) doesn't allow setting up a non-profit that accept "donations" that benefit one of the non-profit's wholly owned for-profit subsidiaries.

I understand that is the current situation, but they don't need the for-profit to be the one working on Firefox.

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