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    I love Brave, use it daily, and this article didn’t convince me at all. Vaguely motioning at the founder’s ancient political donations or the optional crypto features, doesn’t make a strong case.

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        Nor has he repented.

        That’s the important point for me.

        People can change after 20 years. But he prefers to double-down instead.

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        So? He’s the CEO of a company that already gets no money from me.

        Online forums pick the weirdest hills to die on sometimes. You’ve probably used hundreds of products today alone made by companies whose CEOs are worse dickwads than Eich. But this gave you a chance to feel superior online so you had to take it lmao

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          As a gay Californian, I took prop 8 personally. I spurn its supporters as I would spurn a rabid dog.

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      You see, when someone is known to make bad choices it makes sense to approach what they do with apprehension. This guy not only has a history of bad choices, he’s also the CEO.

      You’re free to do as you like of course, but I’d say it’s hardly fair to say the article is unconvincing.

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      Yeah this article is not very convincing

      Brave is great! No ads, Tor built in, and can install Chrome extensions. I don’t use their crypto wallet and it’s never bothered me

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            You’ve used onion links. Brave implemented unsecured onion protocol in thier Chromium browser.

            Anything using Firefox as a base can run onion links with a simple add on because Tor is just Firefox. Vivaldi comes with onion support right out of the box, doesn’t support hate and is malware free.

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            I use brave and think it’s the best browser available, so I’m not arguing against it or anything, but technically it just supports use of the onion protocol, it does not provide the same full suite of protections that the tor browser does

            As Brave says themselves:

            For users who currently require leakproof privacy, we recommend using the Tor Browser, which provides much stronger and well-tested protection against websites or eavesdroppers using advanced techniques to uncover a true IP address.

            https://brave.com/tor-tabs-beta/

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        “Just learned about this company that’s led by a raging bigot who has used his wealth and position to try to oppress others and strip them of civil and human rights, and I fully support that and am now a proud supporter”

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          They also sell userdata more than Google, have installed malware knowingly and thier shitcoin skirts the law.