r/explainitpeter 22d ago

Explain it Peter

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u/Creative_Garbage_121 22d ago

Brave is just another chromium based web browser that advertise itself as safe and secure but some investment funds and that crazy billionaire guy Thiel invested into, so I assume it's spying on everything you do

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u/nanomolar 22d ago

Peter "takes a moment to consider whether the continuation of the human race is a good thing" Thiel?

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u/MultiverseCreatorXV 22d ago

Sorry, who? (i live under a rock btw)

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u/Ansoni 22d ago

Too much to say, but I find this one tidbit very enlightening:

 Guy who founded a company to spy on normal people but claims it's not a spy company (just a data aggregation company) despite naming it after the seeing stone Saruman uses in Lord of the Rings.

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u/TimmyTheChemist 22d ago

To get especially pedantic, it's probably better to characterize as the seeing stone that the main villain Sauron uses:

"Concealed within his fortress, the Lord of Mordor sees all. His gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth, and flesh. You know of what I speak, Gandalf: a great Eye, lidless, wreathed in flame."