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I think we need all support we can get to fight Google on this, so I welcome Brave here actually.

Use this link to avoid going to Twitter:

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/BrendanEich/status/1684561924191842304

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[–] snowgrimm@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't care, still won't use out of principle.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What principle are you referring to? (Serious question)

[–] starman@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are 3 possibilities:

  • brave has crypto stuff
  • brave is based on chromium
  • brave is selling data breaking the licenses
[–] hikaru755@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also, I've seen accusations of blatant homophobia been thrown around against the founder, haven't looked into that though so no idea how accurate that is

[–] carlytm@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What people are referring to in that regard is how, in 2011, Brendan Eich (who later founded Brave Software) stepped down as CEO of Mozilla, 11 days after his appointment to said position, after it came out he had donated $1000 dollars to the campaign for California Proposition 8 in 2008, a proposed state constitutional amendment seeking to ban same-sex marriage. Prop 8 wound up passing, although it was overturned a few years after the fact in court.

Here's an article from when Eich stepped down about the whole ordeal.

[–] hikaru755@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for adding context to this!

[–] GrievingWidow420@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

"I ain't like all the others"