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It isn't silly. How about I don't trust either one of them? Brave is (and you are) saying I should trust Brave because they're going to rip out Google's track

It isn't silly. How about I don't trust either one of them? Brave is (and you are) saying I should trust Brave because they're going to rip out Google's tracking and insert their own instead. No thank you. I'll stick with Firefox and whatever chicanery Mozilla is up to.

Ajedi32 7y ago
If you don't trust Brave, how would that be any better if they were using Firefox as the base for their browser over Chromium?
- phjesusthatguy3 7y ago
  EDIT: I let my parent comment get the best of me, and I apologize for using the language I did. I'm going to leave it here, though, because it does express my frustration at whataboutism. Excuse my profanity, but what the fuck are you on about? Why the fuck would I use a browser that has the explicit fucking purpose of tracking me, whatever fucking base they base their fucking browser on?
  - furyofantares 7y ago
    It’s just confusing because then your original comment is a non-sequitur, not particularly relevant to the context of the discussion about trusting Brave on FF vs Brave on Chromium, because, as you say, if you don’t trust Brave then the base doesn’t matter. There isn’t any whataboutism in the post you are replying to.
    - phjesusthatguy3 7y ago
      No, you didn't go back to my original post, which said I don't trust Google. My apology was about the language I used.
      - Buge 7y ago
        I still don't understand why you would prefer if Brave was based on Firefox instead of Chrome. One of your comments sounds like you're worried about Brave inserting tracking. Brave could do that regardless of what it's based on.
BrendanEich 7y ago
No, we rip out Google's tracking and insert nothing. Brave Ads are opt-in and client-based. There is no server side tracking of users or data in the clear. I can say more on how all this works, but I will pause here. Search for "catalog" elsewhere to find another comment explaining it a bit more.

Ajedi32 7y ago

If you don't trust Brave, how would that be any better if they were using Firefox as the base for their browser over Chromium?

phjesusthatguy3 7y ago
EDIT: I let my parent comment get the best of me, and I apologize for using the language I did. I'm going to leave it here, though, because it does express my frustration at whataboutism. Excuse my profanity, but what the fuck are you on about? Why the fuck would I use a browser that has the explicit fucking purpose of tracking me, whatever fucking base they base their fucking browser on?
- furyofantares 7y ago
  It’s just confusing because then your original comment is a non-sequitur, not particularly relevant to the context of the discussion about trusting Brave on FF vs Brave on Chromium, because, as you say, if you don’t trust Brave then the base doesn’t matter. There isn’t any whataboutism in the post you are replying to.
  - phjesusthatguy3 7y ago
    No, you didn't go back to my original post, which said I don't trust Google. My apology was about the language I used.
    - Buge 7y ago
      I still don't understand why you would prefer if Brave was based on Firefox instead of Chrome. One of your comments sounds like you're worried about Brave inserting tracking. Brave could do that regardless of what it's based on.

BrendanEich 7y ago

No, we rip out Google's tracking and insert nothing. Brave Ads are opt-in and client-based. There is no server side tracking of users or data in the clear. I can say more on how all this works, but I will pause here. Search for "catalog" elsewhere to find another comment explaining it a bit more.