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Given that Brave is a for-profit business backed by VC money[1], sooner or later it'll become what you hate and you will find yourself wishing there was a brows

Given that Brave is a for-profit business backed by VC money[1], sooner or later it'll become what you hate and you will find yourself wishing there was a browser ran by a strong non-profit like Mozilla. That being said, perhaps they should just piggyback off WebKit/Blink and save themselves a ton of resources. [1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/brave-software https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/brave-software

BuyMyBitcoins 4y ago
Mozilla may be a non-profit but there’s a saying: “non profit doesn’t mean they don’t make money”. It’s not too difficult to disable, but Firefox does push suggestions by default and has a revenue sharing agreement with Pocket.
- Lev1a 4y ago
  > Firefox [...] has a revenue sharing agreement with Pocket "Mozilla Corporation" bought Pocket in 2017. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_(service) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_(service) : > On February 27, 2017, Pocket announced that it had been acquired by Mozilla Corporation, the commercial arm of Firefox's non-profit development group. Mozilla staff stated that Pocket would continue to operate as an independent subsidiary but that it would be leveraged as part of an ongoing "Context Graph" project.[6] There are plans to open-source the server-side code of Pocket,[11][12][13] with more than 50 repositories already available on the company's GitHub account, including their iOS app.
  - BuyMyBitcoins 4y ago
    I stand partially corrected! Didn’t realize they were acquired but they are still using pocket for revenue. In fact, this little nugget supports my original post: “the commercial arm of Firefox's non-profit development group”
- cedilla 4y ago
  Pocket has been acquired by Mozilla a few years ago.
johnsea 4y ago
I'm aware that Brave is a for-profit company, this must not necessarily mean that they'll do evil things. And if they would and Mozilla is no longer around, this could also be because Google stopped funding them.

BuyMyBitcoins 4y ago

Mozilla may be a non-profit but there’s a saying: “non profit doesn’t mean they don’t make money”. It’s not too difficult to disable, but Firefox does push suggestions by default and has a revenue sharing agreement with Pocket.

Lev1a 4y ago
> Firefox [...] has a revenue sharing agreement with Pocket "Mozilla Corporation" bought Pocket in 2017. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_(service) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_(service) : > On February 27, 2017, Pocket announced that it had been acquired by Mozilla Corporation, the commercial arm of Firefox's non-profit development group. Mozilla staff stated that Pocket would continue to operate as an independent subsidiary but that it would be leveraged as part of an ongoing "Context Graph" project.[6] There are plans to open-source the server-side code of Pocket,[11][12][13] with more than 50 repositories already available on the company's GitHub account, including their iOS app.
- BuyMyBitcoins 4y ago
  I stand partially corrected! Didn’t realize they were acquired but they are still using pocket for revenue. In fact, this little nugget supports my original post: “the commercial arm of Firefox's non-profit development group”
cedilla 4y ago
Pocket has been acquired by Mozilla a few years ago.

johnsea 4y ago

I'm aware that Brave is a for-profit company, this must not necessarily mean that they'll do evil things. And if they would and Mozilla is no longer around, this could also be because Google stopped funding them.