> How does HN stand on the person of Eich? Very weird personal ideas from anti gay marriage to anti mask/lockdown. Every Brave thread is full of people who hat

> How does HN stand on the person of Eich? Very weird personal ideas from anti gay marriage to anti mask/lockdown. Every Brave thread is full of people who hate his guts. Being unsupportive of gay marriage and skeptical of covid policy/vaccines aren't weird stances, they're really, really common. Maybe not stances you agree with, maybe not stances that are correct, but common, logical and simple to explain. We're not exactly talking scientology and getting clear here. There's obviously crazy people in the group, but any group that's millions strong is going to include crackpots. If you go nutpicking, you're going to find nutcases. But more importantly: Whatever his politics, Brave doesn't seem to be much influenced by them. That is, the organization says their purpose is to build a browser and help with advancing privacy and user choice on the web, and they seem to be doing just that. Mozilla also claims to be a privacy organization, but has come out saying they're okay with third parties deciding what I should see on the web, presumably because said content adjustments would favor stanced on non-tech matters the Foundation endorses. That, I don't like. There's a whole bunch of products I use from people I know don't share my views on things, but are focused on doing their job. Mozilla seems less and less job-oriented by the day, so I don't use them. Many Vivaldi staffers and Eich likely disagree on politics, but both organizations don't let politics that aren't tech related to invade their work on their product. They just try to make a good tool, and their politics wrt tool? Privacy and user control, in both cases. So I use both. Because they behave like professionals, not activists on the job. You know, like how the world used to be. People had their politics, and then they had jobs to do.