Mastodawn

🐢Jul 23, 2023

reminder for everyone who may have missed it the last few times

the only reason that brave browser exists is because its ceo was kicked from mozilla for being a homophobe & transphobe

by contuing to use that software you are activity supporting and promoting a company that not only hates lgbtqia+ people but was born out of that bigotry

brave browser is also filled with many not very cool things everything from cryptocurrency scams to link redirection to so much more

there are tones of other chromium , webkit , or firefox based browsers that do can do most everything that brave browser can do or more in terms of "privacy" and just as much or more on terms of useability

please i urge anyone who cares enough about these things to have installed brave in the first place to migrate form brave to something better

heres some good alternatives to try

firefox , chromium , librewolf , ungoogled-chromium , gnone web, kde falkon , qutebrowser , tor browser, thats just a few tho id mostly suggest one of either ff, ch, lw, unch

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Flame Soulis Jul 24, 2023

@julia_ @julia_ Okay, just stop.

I don't even use Brave, and the amount of BS regarding this kind of stuff is getting out of hand.

First off, a simple Google search shows he wasn't kicked at all from Mozilla: they wanted to keep him, but due to the controversy with a donation from 2008 (6 years before he left), he stepped down himself and ignored Mozilla's pleas to remain on. Bear in mind, half the board also left in response. Take that as you will.

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Flame Soulis Jul 24, 2023

@julia_
Second, if you want to go down that rabbit hole of "If you use X, you support Y," don't even get started with how half the crap you have most likely makes human rights seem like a secondary thought. We've seen enough stuff go on with businesses that people continue to use, despite how many lives are being run to the ground as a result. (2/3)

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Flame Soulis Jul 24, 2023

@julia_
As for the crypto part, I hope you aren't using PayPal, because it has the same integrations. If it's regarding their BAT thing, I don't know enough about it to comment. It sounds like how they get funding for their other services... I honestly can't give an immediate answer.

I'm just so tired of hearing people be so quick triggered to just hate on everything with minimal research and assuming everything is just terrible. This kind of anger rallying needs to stop.
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@julia_ As another alternative: Waterfox.

I remember it being more known for being a 64-bit Firefox before that was official, and it seems to be an in between of Librewolf and Firefox in the security and privacy handling. It's actually pretty nice.