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Brave will not add Web Integration support (twitter.com)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I think we need all support we can get to fight Google on this, so I welcome Brave here actually.

Use this link to avoid going to Twitter:

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/BrendanEich/status/1684561924191842304

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[–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Brave have started their marketing spree to try and distract from their most recent controversy. Like clockwork, every time they do something controversial they start marketing to drum up new users.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Just a reminder that Brendan Eich who founded Brave was ousted from Mozilla for being a homophobic piece of shit.

    Brave is the edgelord of browsers.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Don't forget that he inflicted the blight that is JavaScript upon the world.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    Brendan Eich who founded Brave was ousted from Mozilla for being a homophobic piece of shit.

    He was ousted because he donated 1000$ to a political project that he personally supported, which yes, was banning of homosexual marriage.

    I specify that, even if I shouldn't, the project in question is not something I agree with. Yet firing him and continuing to attack him years after (like you're doing here) over opinions he kept personal (he didn't bring it to Mozilla nor did he comment openly about this opinion) is a little shocking to me.

    Let's say you personally supported a wildly unpopular, some might call bigoted, societal change, say drug criminalization in states that legalized it. As long as you just not exposed this in your professional life, how would you feel if your work fired you over it and if people kept bashing you (without knowing anything about you) and your future professional endeavors for the rest of your life?

    We should probably just chill out on that part.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

    Let me translate your comment with equivalent wording that reveals it's true nature.

    Imagine being caught calling for the eradication of jews in private and then being fired and called an anti-semite for the rest of your life. Even though you didn't bring this into your workplace and then companies being reluctant to hire you.

    also your drug criminalization is an entire load of false equivalence bollocks, drug criminalization is a far more complex issue than Gay Marriage, or rather whether we should treat people equally. There are very valid arguments for certain drugs to be criminalized that are way too easy to abuse and kill people with, like fentanyl and I say that as someone that's a supporter of full drug decriminalization.

    Not to mention there are levels to drug criminalization, there is a difference if you have a gram of drug on you or a metric fuck ton.

    There is no version of treating LGBT+ as just somewhat less equal that's morally defensible.

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    • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I don't get all the hate Brave gets. I understand that techies have some issues, but for me as a user I have nothing bad to say. Ads are blocked everywhere, including YouTube. There's an option to use tor...

    If you don't like the crypto options don't use them. I always thought crypto was bunk, but I wish I bought a bunch of bitcoin when I first heard of it.

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    • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    https://nitter.net/BrendanEich/status/1684561924191842304

    Nitter link.

    Also, the Chromium forks need to get onboard. I think Opera doesn't care about ads either so it will likely go against it but Microsoft will definitely add it to Edge.

    Use Firefox :)

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    [+] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)
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    • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I don't understand.

    There's loads of people for whom 3 or 4 sites make up 99% of "the web", and those sites will just stop working for people using browsers without WEI support.

    I just don't really see how a browser could be viable in the future without WEI support.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago

    And that's exactly the point. WEI makes it a world where big tech decides if they are going to support a competing browser, a competing operating system like Linux, or plugins against ads. They can also force you to have any number of plugins installed, from their choosing.

    It destroys the free web completely.

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    [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yet they still don't switch to Gecko 🤦, despite Firefox being faster than chrome these days

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