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Comment by gr_norm

9 hours ago

Yep, I don't trust Brave. A web browser holds so much power over your digital life that it cannot be entrusted to a company that consistently and egregiously compromises its ethics for profit. Most of these examples border on scam behaviour... par for the course for the cryptocurrency space!

For all their faults, Mozilla has never done anything that holds a candle to the kinds of stunts Brave keeps pulling.

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wolvoleo  8 hours ago

Which is even more noteworthy because Brave is led by an ex-CEO and influential top exec of Mozilla's.

I wonder if he'd have done the same at Mozilla.

  • inigyou  2 hours ago

    He was kicked out of Mozilla for being homophobic. No joke.

    • paimapi  1 hour ago

      more specifically, it was for donating to homophobic political groups trying to pass Prop 8 which made gay marriage illegal in California [0]

      the measure passed by 5% [1] - people were fairly incensed that Mozilla Foundation money (paid to him via his salary) might go to future donations of the same kind

      I'm sure people will say things about 'well of course he's legally free to do as he wants with this money' but then so too is the desire by employees to not want to be working under someone who has done something ideologically abhorrent to them. and given the multiple controversies that crop up about Brave seemingly every year where they push some combination of crypto, browser AI, etc, it's probably for the best

      [0] https://www.inc.com/jeremy-quittner/mozilla-ceo-brandon-eich...

      [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_8