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Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 1 year ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I ditched Brave ages ago when the ad and crypto bullshit really ramped up, and finding out Peter Thiel was involved and Brendan Eich was a bigot, were more than enough to keep me away from Brave.

I currently use Arc on desktop because it makes my life as a busy dev much easier to organize, and Safari on iOS because every browser on there is just Safari anyway. iOS Safari + custom DNS to block ads. Works for me.

I’d use Firefox but Arc’s organization features have become insanely useful.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and finding out Peter Thiel was involved

For his vendetta against Gawker (which was more or less entirely executed by paying for people's lawyers if they had a reason to sue Gawker) or for being a general dickbag elsewise?

Because I totally get why Thiel was pissed at Gawker - it wasn't just outing him as gay, but outing him as gay as a time while he was in a country where being gay was punishable by death. Gawker genuinely did something that could have got him killed.

But if you demand moral purity from people making products you support, you're going to have a bad time unless everyone involved is under 25, just because of value drift over time. Doubly so for politicians, for example Hillary used to be a vocal opponent of gay marriage, until that would cost her more votes than it was worth.

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 1 points 1 year ago

It’s more about the fact that I just don’t like anything he stands for. I don’t demand anything from anyone, but I have the freedom to choose what and who I support at any given time.

The sad reality is that a lot of tech bros have moral and political aspects I don’t like, and I’ve been in the tech space for years. They can do whatever they want, just like I can say “nah, not interested.”