Seriously.

Just gonna leave this here.

    • Magnor
      1•2 years ago

      Last I checked Stallmann wasn’t “CEO of Linux”. Such a thing does not exist. Eich is CEO of Brave. Apples to oranges.

      • ch1cken
        0•2 years ago

        Quite the opposite, brave’s defaults are very good. An alternative to brave on the firefox side would be librewolf, which gives firefox great defaults, but the issue with that is that they disabled auto updates, and there’s still a lot of people on the windows side not using a package manager (even though many exist).

        bullshit integrated into it.

        And again, there’s no “bullshit” if you don’t explicitly opt into the crypto.

        • QHC
          1•2 years ago

          and there’s still a lot of people on the windows side not using a package manager

          I think “lots of people” here can just be simplified to “nearly everyone”. Anyone that is ware of a package manager and why it’s useful and thinks to look for an equivalent for Windows is not going to be bothered by a few extra configuration steps.

    • umbraroze
      1•2 years ago

      Go look up all the nasty stuff stallman’s said and firmly believes in. I don’t see people boycotting gnu which is a vital part of linux as a result of this

      People are already aware of the shit Stallman does. Hell, you don’t need to read the shit he writes, dude’s a real-life creep.

      And besides: GNU project’s tools have continued popularity despite him. Do I need to remind you of XEmacs? EGLIBC? EGCS? A whole lot of projects that reminded GNU equivalents to “oh yeah, maybe we should get gud instead of being an inferiour code base” (XEmacs) or “oh yeah, this fork is clearly superiour, we should merge and call it official” (EGLIBC, EGCS). And now people are like “Hey guys, I just found this compiler called Clang and-” and GNU is like “FFFFF-”

      [Ad experiments and crypto] is opt in.

      If you download an ad blocker, I’m pretty certain that you don’t want to “opt in” to any advertisements by default.

      Hey, you thought that was easy to debunk? How about this: When Brave advertises that content creators are able to accept BAT crypto tokens as donations, should the content creators themselves first opt in? They most certainly didn’t. Brave specifically said that they would accept donations on behalf of all content creators and held the donations on their behalf until they would opt in.

      If these content creators never would actually opt in, what then, I wonder? Did they just deceive the fans of those content creators?

      This is dangerously close to the whole rhetoric NFT bros had during the peak. “Why, someone made illegitimate NFTs of your creations? Well you SHOULD have minted those NFTs while you had the chance. Oh, you prefer to NOT participate in this whole NFT ecosystem on principle? Have fun staying poor!”

    • roguetrick
      1•2 years ago

      I always recommend brave to less tech-savvy people,

      Why exactly? The tricks like “optional things to click” are explicitly targeted on less tech savvy people and defeat the point of privacy focused browsers.

        • hoodatninja
          1•2 years ago

          Just getting somebody on Firefox with ublock origin is enough IMO. I’m not going to also remove their ability to use Google search. Especially if they’re older. I am very privacy oriented but you have to make some compromises for people lol.

        • QHC
          1•2 years ago

          Those are choices, not requirements. Using Firefox is better than using Chrome. Doing the extra stuff is even better, but if doing that means someone gives up and goes back to Chrome, that doesn’t help, either.

          Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

      • umbraroze
        1•2 years ago

        I’ve literally installed Firefox and uBlock Origin for elderly people, and walked some other elderly people through installing them. In, like, 2 minutes. This is not difficult.

    • @Synthead@lemmy.ml
      0•2 years ago

      You mentioned that politics should not be mentioned with software. Consider Hans Reiser, the author of reiserfs. He murdered his wife and was sent to prison. Would you be okay with running code written by a murderer on your computer? How about a vase made by a murderer in your house? Would you enjoy the voice of a murderer in music?

  • Teon
    1•2 years ago

    Be “Brave” use a better browser.
    [winks in Firefox]

    • WreckingBANG
      0•2 years ago

      winks in librewolf with uBlock, LocalCDN and altered UserAgent and fixed resolution of 1920×1080

      PS: I am paranoid

      • eroc1990English
        0•2 years ago

        I would love to use librewolf but somehow it stops being able to resolve web pages where every other browser I have installed is still able to. It’s the only thing stopping me from making the jump full time.

  • Alexmitter
    1•2 years ago

    Its a bad chromium fork with a crypto snowball scheme attached and some very scummy practices done.

      • @starman2112@sh.itjust.works
        1•2 years ago

        The referral links weren’t. That should have been a thought that crossed a developers’ mind and immediately left it. It definitely shouldn’t have made it into a test build, and it super shouldn’t have made it into a public release. That it ever made it that far is enough reason to never use the browser again. The developers have proven that they cannot be trusted with your privacy.

  • wave_walnut
    1•2 years ago

    Author of this article, Corbin Davenport, should also stop using Facebook.

  • JelloBrains
    0•2 years ago

    If you are basing the use of a product on the politics of people involved in the project, then you are going to end up with no products to use.

    If you are basing it on it being based on Chromium and having a crypto scam built in, then I get that. That being said, the browser isn’t super bad, just not good. Viva La Firefox.

    • @ciko22i3@sopuli.xyz
      1•2 years ago

      especially with opensource stuff, a lot of devs are either extreme right or extreme left. That doesn’t mean they can’t make a great project. Suckless is a good example for extreme right. Lemmy for extreme left.

    • billothekid2OP
      0•2 years ago

      Nothing new. It’s just an overview of how shady and scammy the browser is. I still see a lot of people recommending it without knowing the backstory.