It gets my goat that people think it’s a good option. There are plenty of articles explaining some of the many issues with it, but a few are:
- It’s run by anti-LGBTQ+ crypto bros.
- It has ads right out of the box.
- It collected donations towards people who never signed up for them - then held them to ransom in exchange for the kind of information you should never share on the Internet.
- They’re a for-profit advertising company. “Privacy-centric” my elbow.
This:
https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/
I did not know Brendan Eich was ousted from Mozilla and launched Brave because he was a homophobe who funded anti-LGBT+ campaigns 😬
He also created JavaScript, but I don’t see people getting upset and telling others to not use JavaScript.
Well, JavaScript has a lot of horrible features, but it’s ubiquitous and we’re stuck with it for the time being. Certainly it’s another thing to blame Eich for, rather than something that mitigates his other shitty behavior.
i’m very upset about it and keep telling people not to use it. have for like 15 years.
Didnt know JS can collect data and transmit it to their creator.
Neither does Brave unless you specifically opt in to those services. It’s open source, you can check for yourself.
yeah a few of these where made opt in after the userbase backlashed when they made them opt out by default
they actually have a tendency of making changes this way, i don’t see why i should trust them with anything
Yeah, we shouldn’t totally disregard the browser because he has some bad opinions. That’s a slippery slope.
a bad opinion is like thinking “how i met your mother” had a nice ending
actively donating to anti-LGBT campaigns is not a bad opinion, it is a hostile action