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Brave is really the browser to bet on and I wish people would give them more credit. Brave's position is that the web is broken - advertising is bad for the web
by insanitybit 3y ago
Brave is really the browser to bet on and I wish people would give them more credit. Brave's position is that the web is broken - advertising is bad for the web as a single form of monetization. I really agree with that. They then ask the important question "so how do we envision the future of monetization?" and I guess that rubs people the wrong way but... it's a critical question, we can't just say "sorry, websites can't fund themselves", we need an alternative.
I am about as anti-blockchain as they come, but the reality is that blockchain has one very specific use case - hostile, unauthenticated users, who need to prove that work has been done. That's the model of a website serving customers - you have no idea who they are, they could be trying to lie to you, etc. It's at least not a bad fit for the technology.
At minimum they're trying something new and I think that's extremely worthwhile - it's not like their coin is their only asset, they are trying to actually sell value to customers. I believe Brave is far more mission aligned and practical than Mozilla is. They've already done a far better job around things like their VPN, TOR mode, etc.
- elforce002 3y ago100% agreed. I've been using it since 2021 and I can't complain. I switched to their search too and the experience is ok too. Shebangs and their integration with stackoverflow is getting better.
- chomp 3y ago"browser to bet on" is a broken way of looking at the web, and puts us right back where we are now. We need browser diversity, not a single point of failure. Brave, Mozilla, Safari, and the other non-Chromium based browsers are all fine picks in our current situation.
- insanitybit 3y agoI think Brave has the best opportunity to compete against Chrome, which turns the world from a 'one browser monopoly' to at least a world with two browsers. That is not "right back where we are now" at all. I don't really care at all about webkit or v8 being used everywhere nearly as much as I care about web standards and an organization having the power to push back or contribute to them. I don't think the benefits of having competing JS engines really warrant much effort relative to what I'm advocating for.
- tucnak 3y agoNo idea why this is getting downvoted, Firefox users care to explain?
- pessimizer 3y agoHow can you have no idea and assume it's Firefox users at the same time? Is that the joke?
- tucnak 3y agoWelcome to the Internet!
- troyvit 3y agoI disagree that Brave is the browser to bet on but also wonder why you're being downvoted. Mozilla is selling ad tiles, Brave is trying a different model. All these players need to diversify their income streams if they can hope to compete with Alphabet.
- schnable 3y agoI felt this way until I switched to Arc which completely changed how I work, for the better.