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Re: I Recommend Against Brave

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I was calling out the $1,000 specifically because that’s what the poster above me mentioned, and I remember that coming up very often back when his CEO stint happened. But, yes, not the only donation he’s made. And I’m sure Mozilla is furiously looking around for new funding sources right now, governments could be of interest, but I expect them to be very careful about letting money influence the product. They know t…

While I'm pointing out to both of you that criticizing "[t]he people who are making choices and citing the one time Eich gave $1,000 to a political cause" sounds like a deliberate strawman when the linked-to criticism lists three different donations. And yeah, I don't want to work for someone who likes paleoconservative Pat Buchanan enough to give him money. As for "They know their independence is a key feature", the…

> And yeah, I don't want to work for someone who likes paleoconservative Pat Buchanan enough to give him money.

How many people have you worked for? You've probably already violated this principle. His views aren't exactly fringe and he's reasonably popular. Eich was giving him money because his position was reasonably popular position in the US tech scene.

The Bush family ended up disgracing itself so there is a great argument that Buchanan should have been president when he stood against Bush in the 1992 primary.

Re: I Recommend Against Brave

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I'm not aware of a good alternative right now. I used to use Firefox but the performance was abysmal on Linux, and they blew up the android experience - might be fixed now. There's no built in ad block and something about the sync has always given me pause. Chrome obviously has no ad blocking built in, now they're removing the best extension ad blocking, and I very much dislike how they tie it to your Google account. Safari only works on macos.

So if I want to recommend a browser to people that has easy ad blocking, is very likely to work on their device, and is fast and works as expected, then it's Brave. It could be Edge if only MS could bring themselves to not fill it with gumph nobody wants to see.

Everything on the list is pretty much who cares tbh. I don't like the founders political position but I probably don't like a lot of CEOs political positions if I knew about them. The other things are all mistakes, bugs, or stupid ideas in the crypto features that I would guess only a tiny tiny percentage of Brave users even turn on. And even then... creators being up in arms about overwritten affiliate links, cry me a river. As an Internet user, fuck affiliate links, just another way to track me and an incentive to try and persuade me to buy shit.

Re: I Recommend Against Brave

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I'm pointing out to both of you that criticizing "[t]he people who are making choices and citing the one time Eich gave $1,000 to a political cause" sounds like a deliberate strawman when the linked-to criticism lists three different donations. And yeah, I don't want to work for someone who likes paleoconservative Pat Buchanan enough to give him money. As for "They know their independence is a key feature", the…

> And yeah, I don't want to work for someone who likes paleoconservative Pat Buchanan enough to give him money. How many people have you worked for? You've probably already violated this principle. His views aren't exactly fringe and he's reasonably popular. Eich was giving him money because his position was reasonably popular position in the US tech scene. The Bush family ended up disgracing itself so there is a gre…

There is a reason I am self-employed, and have been since the 1990s.

When there is easy freedom to change jobs, as there had been in tech for decades, then tech workers can be picky about their employer.

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