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Is Firefox any more private/secure than Brave?
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Brave has tried one scam after another before. I wouldn't trust it for a second for any use.
Please provide any evidence for your false claim.
The CEO was before CEO of Mozilla lmao, but stepped back, because the entire Internet hated Firefox, because of his political opinion.
Completely unrelated to "security" or "privacy".
Again, this has nothing to do with technical issue regarding privacy or security. People are just making excuses. Don't use it if you prefer something else, but don't mix non-relevant stuff or paranoia in a semi-technical discussion.
By the way, that's funny. In a similar way, I hope that you or other virtue-signaling people, don't buy stuff on Amazon (i.e., support them) as the are notoriously mistreating their warehouse workers. Yes, it's unrelated. I'm just point out a blatant hypocrisy.
"Private/secure" is in the title and has nothing to do with the political/social view of the CEO. Until abuse of power happens/is proven, there's no point in spreading FUD, fear-mongering and manipulation. As if FF and Mozilla didn't have their fair share of controversies as well...
Don't even bother replying, this is going to be my last comment in this thread (and probably in this sub, as I'm tired of discussion on "privacy-oriented" subs becoming paranoid every-fucking-time).
Good luck.
Yeah but it’s a great reason not to support them
Again, this has nothing to do with technical issue regarding privacy or security. People are just making excuses. Don't use it if you prefer something else, but don't mix non-relevant stuff in a semi-technical discussion.
By the way, that's funny. In a similar way, I hope that you or other virtue-signaling people, don't buy stuff on Amazon (i.e., support them) as the are notoriously mistreating their warehouse workers. Yes, it's unrelated. I'm just point out a blatant hypocrisy.
Depends on what you call a scam. I am not sure it's the right word, but duplicitous behavior and definite privacy violations (even if by negligence) are absolutely true.
They have sent out direct mailers that basically equated to a customer list leak; also I'd take a peek at the wikipedia entry about their business model, which mentions some stuff that isn't the most savory:
In regards to the mailers, they messed up and passed blame,
With regards to the CEO, he made a donation to an anti-LGBT cause when he was CEO of Mozilla in 2008. He lost his job at Mozilla due to his anti-LGBT stance.
He also spreads COVID misinformation.
Tbh. Mozilla wasn't better in the past and as long it doesn't affect the product I don't mind the political views of the owner (it's still concerning). As long Brave can provide me better privacy and security for my daily browsing I will continue using and recommending it. And listening to Wikipedia he stepped back, by himself.
Really loving how a CEO's political views somehow fucking matter the security of a browser lmao. God I fucking hate this generation