• Chunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    208·
    1 year ago

    Can you expand on the LGBT comment? I’m looking for a new browser and an anti LGBT organization would be a deal breaker for me.

    • PeachMan@lemmy.oneEnglish
      10015·
      1 year ago

      Brendan Eich is vocally against gay marriage, it’s not a secret. Also Brave is fuckin SKETCHY. They’ve always come up with “creative” ways of making money, sometimes inserting affiliate links into their users’ searches, sometimes selling their data, other times getting into weird crypto schemes.

      Every time somebody catches them doing something sketchy, they put out a big “OOPS SORRY THAT WAS AN ACCIDENT” statement, and their fanboys just forgive them and act like it’s no big deal. Then they troll Reddit (and now Lemmy) blindly repeating how great and privacy-focused Brave is.

      The only browser worth your time is Firefox. If you insist on sticking with a Chromium-based browser (which is most of them, including Brave), then Arc is pretty damn cool.

      • Derproid@lemm.eeEnglish
        20·
        1 year ago

        Woah when were they caught selling user data, that would be a huge blow to them as a privacy focused browser that I’ve somehow never heard of.

        • world_hopperEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          The only thing I really found, based on a Google search, is that they sold copyrighted data to train AI models. Still bad, but for completely different reasons and that’s a bigger fish than just brave.

          But maybe I didn’t find what the other commenter was thinking of.

          • Derproid@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Lol so it literally never happened. I guess it’s true that the biggest source of misinformation is random people on the internet.

      • s0q@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        This right here. I am generally very open to new browsers and frankly I am okay with Edge and even chrome as long as their parent companies are open about what data they collect and how they use it. I just do not get the same thing with Brave, and the crypto link injection was the final nail for me. Their fan boys are a weird base.

    • Odo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      201·
      1 year ago

      Check the section labeled “Appointment to CEO and resignation” on Eich’s Wikipedia entry. He also expressed some COVID doubting nonsense during the pandemic. To my knowledge Brave doesn’t have an official stance on any of this, but it’s not a good look when the CEO does (or at least, did in the recent past).

    • Bali@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      183·
      1 year ago

      With his position back then Brendan could make an impact making the world less hateful place to be yet he chose not to by supporting ban on gay marriage.

      After the backlash he stepped down, he started a startup company that make web browser which is now known as Brave (brave choice of name for unapologetic homophobic).

    • jh34ghu43gu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      73·
      1 year ago

      Checkout waterfox, no complaints here after like 6 years; they even added a feature I requested within a week of the request.