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submitted 1 year ago by 8bitretro@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've seen a lot of discourse over which browsers we use and I myself have made the switch from brave to firefox. I still use brave as my search engine though, so... which do yall recommend? Is brave's engine necessarily bad to use? I personally like its ui/theme.

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[–] hal_5700X@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Of course, the brave guy CEO is a piece of shit though. Full on covid conspiracy lab made Fauci pandemic ivermectin type stuff, believes that gay marriage should be illegal while donating to anti-gay orgs, and otherwise uses his position to further far right ideas. He also tries to fund weird micro nation projects with the goal of creating anarcho-capitalist heavens in the ocean. Think bioshock, but crypto bro. All around weird guy

Brendan Eich is a co-founder of Mozilla. So if you’re not going to use Brave because of him. How can you use Firefox?

[–] 8bitguy@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eich resigned Mozilla and started Brave over pressure from Mozilla because of his opposition to same sex marriage, and financial support to anti-same sex marriage intiatives.

[–] hal_5700X@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know, but he's still a co-founder.

[–] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

And Mozilla basically kicked him out for his political beliefs, so how is that a reason not to use Mozilla software today?

[–] foo@withachanceof.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brendan Eich is not involved with Mozilla anymore.

He also created JavaScript though. So by your logic how can you use the web in general?

[–] hal_5700X@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Brendan Eich is not involved with Mozilla anymore.

Yeah, but he's one of the co-founders. He did help make Mozilla.

He also created JavaScript though. So by your logic how can you use the web in general?

I'm not against using the stuff he made/helped to make. Because he keep his beliefs and his work separated.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does he profit off of Mozilla (which said profit is going to right-wing causes)?

[–] hal_5700X@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe. We don't know about the exit deal he got.

[–] digdug@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Okay, maybe a not-for-profit organization that he voluntarily resigned from gave him a golden parachute deal with perpetual royalties that's totally secret. We can never know ...

One thing we do know? Using Brave has a 100% chance of supporting him financially.

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

I'm not, not directly. I'm using the mullvad browser. However, even if I was using firefox that is part of a not-for-profit organization that he is no-longer part of where the money and success do not benefit him. This is different than using a browser whose success gives him money, which he then uses to support causes I am vehemently against.

If using brave did not support him I would accept an argument around my usage of it. It does however.

Apologies for the fact that you're getting downvoted, that is a reasonable question to ask