• wpb@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I don’t have a strong opinion on brave, but here’s some reasons I can think of:

    • cryptocoin shit
    • based on chromium (so using this instead of firefox, for example, increases google’s hegemony – and this is true: even though chromium is open source, google completely controls its direction)
    • CEO is a homophobe
    • scammy business practices like inserting affiliate codes in urls

    And this is just the stuff that I know from the top of my head. I don’t particularly care about this topic, so I’m sure there’s more. Although, having written all this out, I can sense that my opinion of Brave has worsened significantly.

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      3 months ago

      Isn’t it open source ? Can someone build a fork with all of this shit removed ?

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        3 months ago

        Yeah I guess. Doesn’t really change any of the arguments against it though. I mean, it’s good that it’s open source of course, but the ceo is still a homophobe, for example. And it still chromium based, and so on.