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Can you elaborate?

by amitport 6y ago

Can you elaborate?

coolspot 6y ago
Probably reference to all crypto-coin related stuff in Brave.
- agumonkey 6y ago
  Even without the crypto stuff, when I installed it, it felt like an intern first eclipse plugin. Few buttons more, a different help page and that's it. Didn't inspire technical strength and quality.
  - pbhjpbhj 6y ago
    That's weird, it's pretty indistinguishable from the other browsers for me. Reminds me of a cross between Opera and Firefox. It's run by one of the principle Firefox devs (Eich) and none of the stories about it ripping people off or being insecure appear to have been well founded. I've used all the major browsers, starting with Mosaic and Netscape, was there when FF was phoenix, have been writing websites for 20 years (only a small amount of that time commercially). YMMV but it seems trustworthy, privacy focused, fast enough (ie I can't tell if it's different in performance terms). It's just reskinned Chrome with privacy extensions built in and a system to enable people to try and send micropayments to sites if the sites are signed up. It's not reminiscent of Eclipse in anyway for me (mind Eclipse to me most evokes poor DE integration, I'm a long time KDE user, and having a billion settings). Use the browser that pleases you most though.
    - agumonkey 6y ago
      Yes it felt like a reskinned Chrome with a few unfinished parts bolted on. And coming from Eich big new project I thought it would be way more polished.
      - BrendanEich 6y ago
        When did you try it?
    - hackerfromthefu 6y ago
      Yeah I wonder if most of the Brave allegations (that are usually attached to no actual verifiable facts) are in fact hit pieces on Eich from the bully crowd
jolmg 6y ago
> Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999
fuu_dev 6y ago
Have fun: https://rudism.com/the-brave-browser-is-brilliant/ https://rudism.com/the-brave-browser-is-brilliant/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027
pkulak 6y ago
Replacing ads on sites you visit with their ads, wrapped up in a cryptocurrency scheme, like you'd expect from a literal virus, brought to you by a guy too homophobic to be on Mozilla's board. Plus, and I have no evidence of this apart the synchronized hype they do for the browser, but I'm pretty sure Brave is secretly bankrolling those very... political... Linux YouTubers.
- ColanR 6y ago
  > too homophobic to be on Mozilla's board I do enjoy the irony that Mozilla seems to have gone downhill ever since he left / got kicked out. The people replacing him, IIRC, aren't as knowledgeable or expert as he was. But then, I am somewhat a fan of pure meritocracy.
  - BrendanEich 6y ago
    Thanks for your comment. Of course (to reply to downvoted up-comment), we don't and never did "[replace] ads on sites you visit". But when it comes to evil-me, making false claims is justified? Seems so!

Can you elaborate?

coolspot 6y ago

Probably reference to all crypto-coin related stuff in Brave.

agumonkey 6y ago
Even without the crypto stuff, when I installed it, it felt like an intern first eclipse plugin. Few buttons more, a different help page and that's it. Didn't inspire technical strength and quality.
- pbhjpbhj 6y ago
  That's weird, it's pretty indistinguishable from the other browsers for me. Reminds me of a cross between Opera and Firefox. It's run by one of the principle Firefox devs (Eich) and none of the stories about it ripping people off or being insecure appear to have been well founded. I've used all the major browsers, starting with Mosaic and Netscape, was there when FF was phoenix, have been writing websites for 20 years (only a small amount of that time commercially). YMMV but it seems trustworthy, privacy focused, fast enough (ie I can't tell if it's different in performance terms). It's just reskinned Chrome with privacy extensions built in and a system to enable people to try and send micropayments to sites if the sites are signed up. It's not reminiscent of Eclipse in anyway for me (mind Eclipse to me most evokes poor DE integration, I'm a long time KDE user, and having a billion settings). Use the browser that pleases you most though.
  - agumonkey 6y ago
    Yes it felt like a reskinned Chrome with a few unfinished parts bolted on. And coming from Eich big new project I thought it would be way more polished.
    - BrendanEich 6y ago
      When did you try it?
  - hackerfromthefu 6y ago
    Yeah I wonder if most of the Brave allegations (that are usually attached to no actual verifiable facts) are in fact hit pieces on Eich from the bully crowd

jolmg 6y ago

> Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999

fuu_dev 6y ago

Have fun: https://rudism.com/the-brave-browser-is-brilliant/ https://rudism.com/the-brave-browser-is-brilliant/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027

pkulak 6y ago

Replacing ads on sites you visit with their ads, wrapped up in a cryptocurrency scheme, like you'd expect from a literal virus, brought to you by a guy too homophobic to be on Mozilla's board. Plus, and I have no evidence of this apart the synchronized hype they do for the browser, but I'm pretty sure Brave is secretly bankrolling those very... political... Linux YouTubers.

ColanR 6y ago
> too homophobic to be on Mozilla's board I do enjoy the irony that Mozilla seems to have gone downhill ever since he left / got kicked out. The people replacing him, IIRC, aren't as knowledgeable or expert as he was. But then, I am somewhat a fan of pure meritocracy.
- BrendanEich 6y ago
  Thanks for your comment. Of course (to reply to downvoted up-comment), we don't and never did "[replace] ads on sites you visit". But when it comes to evil-me, making false claims is justified? Seems so!