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Hey. Thanks for the interest, but I think I’m going to have to rejct
this request, & I’d actually like to explain my reasoning:
First, Brave is not a perfect browser & it *is* last on this incomplete
list for a reason, but I feel it still has a place. Brave is well-known
to be based on the Blink+V8 engines behind Chromium, but the reality is
that we have web sites & web apps that are denying users based on
whether or not they have a Chromium-compatible user agent or similar.
Anecdotally, I have loved ones with such requirements for work. There
has to be *some* browser in this space that can fit the bill for users
while having a privacy focus. Brave has a pretty solid built-in
ad/tracking blocker on by default with little input needed for the user.
It’s source is released under MPL-2.0 unlike say Vivaldi which is closed
& also has some ad blocking but do we know what they allow thru (think
AdBlock Plus’s “acceptable ads”) as a unfree software? As far the Brave
team has posted, they want to resist Chrome-doms (such as Web
Environment Integrity, some of the bad Web Manifest V3 changes, etc.).
They’ve also addressed some past faults like inserting referral codes.
Even despite riding a crypto wave, the tech sphere was following it
before the ‘normie’ hype because flawed or not, the intent of even BAT
is to address some obvious issues with the current ad-based model a
lot of the web is built in (whether or not you agree with it is a
personal matter without having the benefit yet of hindsight). Enabling
such features as the ad replacement/ad notifications isn’t even on by
default. What I really see is a browser whose team is genuinely trying
to do its best to balance the privacy wants from its users & the
ecosystem/profit requirements to exist in our capitalist society. …Just
like how Mozilla largely has to suckle at Google to keep the lights on.
I am not sure of an alternative in the Chromium space that can support a
user that has requirements a site/app has put on them to use a
compatible browser—an alternative that has the eyes & team behind
managing a fork of one of the largest pieces of software, Chromium.
As for Eich, man did a bad thing …but did a bad thing almost a decade
ago & has dealt with the ramifications, including getting fired. I’m
usually in favor of boycotts against corporations, products,
organizations that do bad, but canceling an individual, I’m a bit less
fond of as there should be room for atonement. I would honestly doubt
he does much in the way of making decisions about the browser itself—
there is likely a CTO, but largely decisions are probably made by a
development team actually calling shots—but our messiah worship of CEOs
as a result of the capilist society thrust upon us is giving them too
much power & celebrity that I would rather just not bother caring about.
In the same way I wouldn’t stop using a service because a janitor made a
bigoted post online a decade age, there are more workers on that team &
their work shouldn’t be viewed thru the lens of CEO as if he (or Bezos, or
Musk, or Zuckerberg, or Gates, et al. other clowns) is the genius
mastermind of his team’s labor.
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