The IRS rules governing nonprofits still required the Mozilla Foundation to beg big to go big: the parent had to go find big grants from Soros, Ford, Knight, MacArthur, and give smaller grants to many. This put it in the lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply revolving-door personnel sector of NGOs and nonprofits (too many glowies there for me, too). Which meant I had a hostile MoFo over my head the minute I got CEO appointment from the MoCo board…
Of course I can’t comment on anything about my exit, for reasons that only the most loopy HN h8ers still can’t figure out.
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brave is just chromium, i wonder when google wants to cut them off down the line.
Brave has always seemed shady to me. I mean it has built in crypto spam.
Good thing I quit brave a few years ago when they did that Crypto shit.
Oh that queer hating fuck is still around?
Most of them are.
Someone’s been munching Elon’s Special K for breakfast. New marketing tagline just dropped tho:
Brave browser, because you’d have to be brave to use a browser built by a Nazi
How about just:
Brave: We’re not!
and downing dom perrignon for breakfast lunc and dinner.
Wow, ketamine is a hell of a drug.
usually ketamine would have an opposite effect, other things like alcohol and stimulants will amplify those things. much like musk, he probably uses alcohol alot too.
IDK, ketamine is kinda similar to alcohol; more psychedelic. As someone who has always struggled with depression and has done ketamine, it does seem like it would be a good fast-acting, but short half-life anti-depressant (the afterglow lasts well after the buzz). Never knew anyone who abused it habitually, long term. Heard it messes up your bladder.
Right wing asshole shows to the world again that they never improved and are even more of a right wing asshole.
This is why I never used Brave anything longer than a brief look. Fuck this dude, I’m glad Mozilla removed him.
Regardless of the CEO, Brave is a great product. The crypto stuff is easy to turn off. Fantastic ad blocking, rarely any problems. What is the best alternative with great ad blocking?
They stole money by adding donation links to content creators pages, then didn’t give the donated money to the creators.
I don’t know what that has to do with my question? I am not defending anything like that
I see how they didn’t answer the question. However, maybe they’re not answering your question but commenting on “Brave is a great product”.
“Jim occasionally bullies his colleagues but he is a good person otherwise”
That doesn’t make it a bad product. I’ve never interacted with any of the crypto or donation stuff. You go into settings, click “no thanks” and are never bothered by any of that ever again. So no, these stories people repeat ad nauseam don’t take away anything from the product. Why don’t other people demand better from the alternatives? If there is one better than Brave at fighting popups and stuff, I’m all for it
Literally every other browser with uBlock Origin? I am still able to use it even on Chrome.
I have more problems with uBlock Origin breaking the website. Also, it doesn’t block other elements such as cookie walls and news letter signup garbage.
I never had any issues using ublock origin.
& Creating own filters in ublock is really easy.
For example i block YouTube shorts using ublock.
Oh my god why haven’t I done this yet
some sites that are anti-adblock will "break: with ublock orgin, and some with adguard or privacy badger, i just turn one of those off and its fine.
Is there a good mobile browser that…
- Supports adblock?
- Doesn’t have as many rendering issues as Firefox on mobile sites?
I know the latter isn’t Firefox’s fault, but it still impacts the end user.
Can’t say I experienced rendering issues with ff mobile
Ever since I switched to GrapheneOS, Vanadium has been working well. Never had a problem with Firefox + ublock, or Librewolf (except with a corporate intranet webapp that specifically required users to use Chrome).
To expand on your second point in case anyone isn’t sure what you mean:
Different browsers render webpages slightly differently, because they use different “engines”. The most popular browsers are Chrome or Edge, both of these which use the Blink engine, whereas Firefox uses a different engine called Gecko.
Web developers want their websites to work for most people, so they develop websites that are optimized to run in Blink, which means they sometimes don’t look as intended on Gecko (Firefox). It’s not Firefox’s fault that developers are doing this – of course developers want to reach the most users possible. There’s nothing wrong with Gecko, either – if it were more popular, then developers would build sites for it instead of for Blink. But, this issue of sites breaking can sometimes turn people off.
(Conversely, I develop for Firefox first, so sometimes webpages I make don’t render properly in Chrome/Edge. That’s not ideal, but I don’t care much. I think Gecko is the better + more consistent engine, and I’m not interested in chasing mass appeal.)
While it’s a Firefox fork, Ironfox works great for me.
for mobile, but for desktop theres like zen,floorp, “librefox, maybe”,etc. they all still depend on mozilla to survive though.
Firefox + ublock origin + android is the best browsing experience on mobile.
Cromite on Android checks both those boxes. Ad blocking isn’t great, but the developer isn’t Brave.
Firefox + uBlock Origin might be better if you haven’t tried that specific extension before. It works more than okay for me, but I realize YMMV and that’s especially true for non-flagships
Cromite doesn’t seem to allow opening supported links in other apps for some reason
Jesus, this fucking paranoid bitch can barely string a sentence together. He must be neck deep in the techbro CEO k-hole…
Also, as an Irish leftist, he should leave my people out of his delusional and incoherent ranting.
can’t believe the homophobic crypto nut would also be a right wing loon
crypto, homophobia, fits in with conservatives they all believe in these types of scams. either they buy into crypto, or they are peddling it-themselves.
It’s always the ones you most expect
Right? How could anyone possibly be shocked by this?
Look, fool me sixteen times, shame one you. Fool me twenty six times, shame on you. We won’t get fooled again.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on glue.
sudo apt remove brave-browser
k who’s next?
try out graphene os if you haven’t
Is ungoogeled-chromium any less skeezy? It’s not my main browser but every now and then I need a Chrome based browser or some sites just don’t work right.
Ungoogled Chromium does a really good job of taking Google out of Chrome, so far less skeezy. None of that cryptocurrency stuff either.
What cryptocurrency is integrated into Chrome?
Pretty sure the cryptocurrency comment is referring to Brave, not Chrome.
Oh.
Gross.
I imagine the implication is that no cryptocurrency stuff is inserted in the spot that google once occupied.
Are there any forks that aren’t infested with rabid honeybadgers?
At least two.
This kind of statement have way less impact when people already have 0 goodwill toward the one that says it.
lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply
Is this racist against the Irish? I mean that is traditional, but sounds so strange.
“Irish need not apply” was a common thing in job ads at one time; asshat here is doing the usual conservative thing of pretending to be unfairly persecuted
I think this is just a CEO likening personal opinions to racial oppression. The example he chose might be a little ironic too.
