Brave layoffs

Post by mthoms » Sat, Oct 07, 2023, 4:46 PM UTC

charcircuit wrote: post #80

izacus wrote: post #34

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That's the same Brave that replaced links with their own profit bringing ad links? Riight.

This never happened as far as I can tell.

Post by mthoms » Sat, Oct 07, 2023, 4:53 PM UTC

VancouverMan wrote: post #62

malfist wrote: post #32

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Tell me about your plan to run and maintain a national network of highways without government "jobs"

Why do you mistakenly believe that government needs to be involved with something like that? There's nothing overly special about an interstate-style highway network. It's essentially just a large number of roads covering a long distance that are connected together, with emphasis on driving speed. The private sector is more than capable of planning, building, connecting, maintaining, and operating roads of all types,…

Post by kyleee » Sat, Oct 07, 2023, 5:08 PM UTC

sirwhinesalot wrote: post #50

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #31

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>Because the leadership is hellbent on copying Chrome but worse and investing in utterly pointless endeavors instead of making a good browser. Is this a hypothesis that we can specify and test? Is this how we would approach this problem? It sounds more like a cynical write-off, not a actual strategy >I hope a new truly FOSS browser shows up and catches on that does not use Blink and isn't owned by a group of human-sh…

> Is this a hypothesis that we can specify and test? Is this how we would approach this problem? It sounds more like a cynical write-off, not a actual strategy There is nothing to test, it's why I stopped using Firefox. Check the Mozilla foundation page for all the crap they fund instead of the browser. Look how much the UI looks like Chrome, even little things like clicking the searchbar expanding it outside its bou…

Post by kyleee » Sat, Oct 07, 2023, 5:15 PM UTC

mch82 wrote: post #78

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #19

I'm going to treat this like a product engineering discussion User Story: As a Private Citizen and Engineer, I want a graphical multi-input interface to load, view, interact with and post documents to remote and local HTTP servers ("web-browsing") on any personal computing device. I want web-browsing to have out of the box default security and privacy guardrails that are well documented can be disabled or modified by…

You’re in the right mindset. I’d recommend a pivot from the “private citizen” persona to the “CTO persona”. As a CTO, I want a web browser based on open standards so that my company’s portfolio of products and internal business apps are protected from monopoly behavior by browser vendors. Mozilla may have forgotten the CTO persona. CTOs can donate engineering hours to Mozilla. Companies can donate money. If companies…

Post by dmarcos » Sat, Oct 07, 2023, 5:22 PM UTC

charcircuit wrote: post #84

flagrant_taco wrote: post #39

We aren't going to see browser competition unless and until we fundamentally rethink what the internet should be. The specifications are simply too complex to foster any meaningful competition. There's too much ground to cover playing catchup and Google has such a large market share that, combined with their data and ad monopoly, allows them to create new specs and features that focus entirely on growing their busine…

Google's browser engine is open source. You can reuse Google's browser engine meaning that you can focus on the features that differentiate your browser instead of implementing the spec like you suggest.