I must admit, I was on the wrong side of Mozilla’s controversy around Brendan Eich. It was only later that I came to realize: the people who were upset, they actually knew what this was about, and I did not.
So whenever one of you recommends the #Brave browser, it makes me cringe. This article by @corbin sums it all up nicely, please read.
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I'm not sure that convinces me. Core of the criticism remains this single rather small donation.
To focus on the technical side:
1. Mozilla management after @BrendanEich was a disaster named #MitchellBaker.
2. #BraveBrowser is only a frontend for #Chromium, unlike #Firefox, the last remaining libre browser. - It could easily be solved by changing the engine.
3. BAT is the crude solution to a problem no one solved, most even ignore.
@alex_mastodon Please get your facts straight. Mitchell Baker was not Eich’s successor, Chris Beard was. Mitchell was CEO before 2008 and after 2020. Both times she took on this post during a difficult phase for Mozilla, so I seriously wonder what exactly you consider her personal failures here.
BAT is a very effective solution to a single problem: Brave browser funding. Other than that, it solves exactly nothing. If Brave were serious about funding publishers, there are far less convoluted solutions not involving bogus money. Not that these manage to generate enough money either, I’ve been there.
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