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I never thought I'd meet a homophobe defender brave enough to venture outside their own little pocket fascist instance of lemmy.
Here are some facts:
That link does not 'debunk' the fact that Brave was funded, in part, by Peter Thiel. It just downplays it.
Brave's funding was a crypto scam, and selling the idea of 'selling out to advertisers' to investors.
They are so incredibly 'committed to privacy' that they keep selling user data and illegally redirecting users.
No, to answer your whataboutism, I'm not fine with the Mozilla board having Google members among others on it. I really hate that they are spending most of their money on not web browser development, and have spent most of their money in the last two years that was ear marked for browser development on AI features the majority of users turn off. But that's still better than supporting Brenden Eich.
On your point 3 there was a 1 time issue back in 2020 about redirect links from 1 specific site (binance.us). I know a lot of companies claim malicious things were a bug, but considering it only happened once, was restricted to one site, was fixed almost immediately after it was discovered, and had to do with auto fill settings in the address bar from people who had already used brave's affiliate links; it really does seem more like a bug. Why do you insinuate that they "keep" doing something when there is only this one instance?
Also no where in that link does it mention "selling user data" so that part seems to have come straight from you ass.
I'd address the other points and why they are pretty much meaningless when you dig into the actual stories, but I dont have the time, and trying to explain the reality of brave to Lemmy users is like trying to explain to a dog why they can't just eat all the food all the time.
But I did want to specifically call out point 3 because you literally just made shit up and a primal part of my brain can not stand dirty fucking liars who lie because they don't have any actual arguments.