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.

  • Hal-5700X@lemmy.world
    15·
    9 months ago

    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
      4·
      9 months ago

      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.

    • sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      I’m not, not directly. I’m using mullvad. 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 it’s usage. It does however.

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

    • foo@withachanceof.com
      2·
      9 months ago

      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?