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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by paulintrognon on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @08:11AM (#24566027)
Well, if Brendan Eich stayed CEO of Mozilla, maybe we would now have a kind of firefox/brave mixed browser.

But instead, we can choose between Firefox, and Brave. 2 competitors for Chrome, from which users can choose. So, in the end, maybe it was for the best?

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by vxNsr on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @09:56AM (#24567082)
Brave is just chrome with a few additions it’s much worse than a Braved-Firefox would be. I’m guessing he rightly feels he couldn’t use Firefox as his base due to the history.
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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by BrendanEich on Thursday September 24, 2020 @12:49PM (#24580640)
From https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf,

"We study six browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Brave Browser, Microsoft Edge and Yandex Browser. For Brave with its default settings we did not find any use of identifiers allowing tracking of IP address over time, and no sharing of the details of web pages visited with backend servers. Chrome, Firefox and Safari all share details of web pages visited with backend servers."

See also https://brave.com/brave-tops-browser-first-run-network-traff... and https://brave.com/ios-browser-first-run/.

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