Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser

Oh believe me I get it. But at the same time the CEO didn't rename brave browser "anti woke browser" and force it to not load "woke sites man".

Shits all open source right? Even if I disagree with him politically that's on him. I can use my money to donate to my political designation and even fork the brave browser if I don't want to support it.

Elon and Spez were one way no choice fuck you CEOs. We didn't get much choice there. And they use their platforms to remind you of that. I don't really feel like brave does that at all.

Edit: I'm also going to add that I don't use brave. I also don't care much about politics outside of leave me alone, leave my neighbor alone, and make things affordable.

That's why life is hard for grownups. You have to decide what you think is important and not.

With your way of seeing things it looks like no one should be criticised since no one is without sin?

Underrated comment - the top is filled with toxic scum. True regardless of what side of the political spectrum you fall on.

I don't personally resonate with the idea of "boycotting" things, mostly for the fact that these companies will never miss the $20 I would have spent on them. "Boycot" to me, implies some sort of noticeable statement.

For me, when Im thinking about getting a Chik-Fil-A or something, the question is simple: "Do I want to give my money to these people?"

Calling something Ubiquitous isn’t arguing any point. It’s just a statement of observance. It’s not a call to action. It’s not a reason to do one thing or another. If anything, it’s a symptom. A pattern. And patterns can be a reason to change. Happens in psychology all the time. In fact looking for the patterns is in part in identifying a problem. So congrats on identifying something everyone else already knew. But you certainly can’t argue that a pattern as enough of a reason to not change a pattern.

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

No. That is factually wrong. Brave is open source. This is more like if we discovered the creator of mastodon was donating any profits he managed to make to some bigotry party. You wouldn't see me barking down the nice people who host mastodon or contribute to its code.

Separate the patrons, artists and art. Because it is not the same and that logic cuts all sorts of ways.

I'm not sure if you mean to say people like me arguing to separate patrons, artists and the art - especially where this is open source - or people like the writer of the article in the OP.

So I'll speak to it from both ends: people naturally want to vote with their time and money. If money is seeing ads and generating crypto for someone they don't support; fine. I think everyone understands where they're coming from. On the other hand I can google github + project-name for brave and find all the code and fork it...if you don't like something about brave just fork it or use a stripped down fork.

I don't use brave to begin with but the public executions are fucking obnoxious when the product hasn't taken a unilateral shift in direction. Twitter and Reddit were proprietary platform you were locked in for if you used them daily. There was never an alternative way to use those products in their full functionality; both had to be 100% recreated on mastodon/lemmy. If you don't like Brave's CEO you can literally fork the project, remove the shit you don't like and use the work for free.