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[+] [email protected] -70 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Lemmy always seems to hate Brave but no one ever says why

[–] [email protected] 164 points 3 months ago (2 children)

shady issues in the past from company
heavily integrated with crypto (controversial for some)
CEO is a transphobe
it's still Chrome under the hood

[–] [email protected] 125 points 3 months ago (2 children)

CEO is also homophobic and a covid skeptic
the browser used to modify crypto exchange URLs to add it's affiliate code to it
it used to collect donations for content creators without their consent

[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why people always forget the simple:

Brave is an Ad company that want to replace google ads

Switching Google to Brave is not an upgrade is a sidegrade.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Firefox is

Dependant on Google's ad revenue
Joining the advertising market themselves

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Dependant on Google's money, the majority of Google comes from ads but not all of them. The deal is not directly with ads, is the default search engine on Firefox.
This is recently, sucks a lot but we did not see yet how they'll use that with the browser.

More importantly the biggest difference is Brave want to be like Google, is the goal of the company. Mozilla is funding the project in the shittiest way possible but is not the end goal.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

So you are sure that Google and Mozilla doesn't employ any homophobics? They obviously have some sort of mind reader?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

You are right, I should have been more specific. He's openly homophobic. I'm also pretty sure that's not the case for Mozilla as he was Mozilla's CEO and was pushed out over this specific thing.

I don't know why you are shifting from CEO to employees.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Ah ya I didn't know about them being transphobic. That's a shame

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago

I don't know, I've seen answers to this so many times on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

I've seen this answered so many times it'd make your head spin, looney-toons style. If you don't know then you haven't been paying any attention.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

My personal reason, I looked at their code and it was amateur town. Hacked together trash. There’s a proper way to modify Chromium and they didn’t follow any of it. In contrast, Vivaldi’s coders knew what they were doing. I don’t actively use or support Chrome, but if you’re going to do something, do it right.