I’ve seen a lot of discourse over which browsers we use and I myself have made the switch from brave to firefox. I still use brave as my search engine though, so… which do yall recommend? Is brave’s engine necessarily bad to use? I personally like its ui/theme.
Brendan Eich is a co-founder of Mozilla. So if you’re not going to use Brave because of him. How can you use Firefox?
Eich resigned Mozilla and started Brave over pressure from Mozilla because of his opposition to same sex marriage, and financial support to anti-same sex marriage intiatives.
I know, but he’s still a co-founder.
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Brendan Eich is not involved with Mozilla anymore.
He also created JavaScript though. So by your logic how can you use the web in general?
Yeah, but he’s one of the co-founders. He did help make Mozilla.
I’m not against using the stuff he made/helped to make. Because he keep his beliefs and his work separated.
Does he profit off of Mozilla (which said profit is going to right-wing causes)?
Maybe. We don’t know about the exit deal he got.
Okay, maybe a not-for-profit organization that he voluntarily resigned from gave him a golden parachute deal with perpetual royalties that’s totally secret. We can never know …
One thing we do know? Using Brave has a 100% chance of supporting him financially.
I’m not, not directly. I’m using the mullvad browser. However, even if I was using firefox that is part of a not-for-profit organization that he is no-longer part of where the money and success do not benefit him. This is different than using a browser whose success gives him money, which he then uses to support causes I am vehemently against.
If using brave did not support him I would accept an argument around my usage of it. It does however.
Apologies for the fact that you’re getting downvoted, that is a reasonable question to ask