skilledtothegillsThe shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training
Their crypto autofill scandal is all one needs to know about this company. If you’re marketing your browser as privacy focused and then pull stunts like that you lose all credibility in my eyes.
Firefox or go bust
NyaaNot to mention the interesting bits of info you can find just by looking into the CEO of Brave, Brendan Eich. Plenty of reasons with him alone for someone to avoid the browser.
The big one that he likes to keep buried is that he donated money to an anti-gay marriage proposition in California back in 2011, which is what caused the pressure for him to step down as Mozilla CEO back in 2014.
Also, he invented JavaScript. He got on my shitlist permanently for that alone.
AnonymousLlamaA necessary evil sadly. Never enjoyed having to program in JS, but I enjoy all the fanciness and convienence it brings the UX.
What does his political donations have to do with brave's alleged misconduct here?
It has nothing to do with it, but I was commenting on a parent level comment to add more info about the stunts they pull that reduce their credibility, making it relevant to the parent comment, but not the overall post.