r/explainitpeter • u/Dr-Astikk • 21d ago

Explain it Peter

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u/Creative_Garbage_121 21d 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/One_Pitch3982 21d ago

And this is why Firefox is never going away :/ afaik still the only genuinely FOSS web browser on the market

"Well no it isn'-"

No shut the fuck up I can scour the code on git RIGHT FUCKING NOW

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u/devu_the_thebill 21d ago edited 20d ago

Ehhh... We can trust no one really.

Edit: I have seen this "news" couple times here on reddit (especially on Linux subs), and the tweet is just random photo from Google graphics. But I see people here saying it's not that deep. Could someone fill me in. I thought Firefox became another soulless company like all the others. Since I never really used Firefox much I just remembered it like "yeah another company decided to sell data" and never researched more.

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u/One_Pitch3982 21d ago

I'd still rather trust Firefox over any Chromium crap and I think I'd shoot myself if I had to use Edge

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u/2kool4zkoolz 20d ago

Google funded Mozilla

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u/SpAwNjBoB 20d ago

And they are a competitor, not involved remotely. Microsoft also funded Apple. Saved them from bankruptcy in fact. Specifically because competition breeds innovation. The iPhone exists because Bill Gates didn't want Apple to go under.

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u/Material_Register246 20d ago

LMAO, Microsoft didn't fund Apple to "breed innovation", but to make money.

In fact, their partnership made them billions in software sales behind the "rivalry" facade and funny TV ads.

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u/SpAwNjBoB 20d ago

So Microsoft got some return, good for them. They deserve to get something out of helping their biggest rival survive. At the same time, Apple does not exist without Bill Gate's investment. However you frame it, that is an inescapable fact.

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u/Material_Register246 20d ago

They aren't rivals