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SudoDnfDashY@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

Brave legally threatens Brave fork trying to remove adds.

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Brave legally threatens Brave fork trying to remove adds.

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SudoDnfDashY@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago
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  • rysiek@szmer.info
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    2 years ago

    Oh no! The browser that forked the browser that a browser made by the largest ad vendor in the world is based on in order to be able to serve different ads is legally threatening a browser that forked it in order to remove said ads?

    Did I get this right?

    • jet@hackertalks.com
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      The brave people have always seemed kind of scummy to me. This just reinforces it

  • const_void@lemmy.ml
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    Brave sucks in general. It’s has too much bullshit built in. Yes you can disable it but easier to just use a better browser.

    • lemonadebunny
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      Ungoogled Chromium with plugins > Brave

  • ksynwa@lemmy.ml
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    tbf they only asked to change name. using a name like braver that is so close to brave is bound to cause confusion. it was the case with streamlabs obs.

  • CHEF-KOCH@lemmy.mlBanned
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    It was made by a free speech company that supported neo-nazis and white supremacists. They also wanted to replace the coin system.

    • https://micky.com.au/gab-parasites-fork-brave-browser-replace-bat-with-btc/
    • https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/the-removal-of-the-dissenter-extention/38140/70
    • https://old.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/ptaau2/what_happened_to_dissenter/
    • https://www.customerservant.com/no-one-disputes-the-fact-that-gabs-founder-has-the-right-to-fork-brave-we-just-dont-think-nazis-add-value-to-anything-including-code-bases/
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)
    • https://old.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/bgmgi5/the_dissenter_browser_will_have/
    • https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/dissenter-web-browser

    In April 2019, Dissenter was removed from the Firefox Add-ons website and the Chrome Web Store for violation of their policies that causes the creation of the Dissenter web browser.

    Brave never threatened anyone.

    • Evan@lemmy.mlM
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      brave is also run by a homopobic alt right ass so…

      https://rentry.io/notbrave

      please note: I do not support coil

      • forkbomb9@lemmy.ml
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        It’s https://rentry.co/notbrave (?) At least your link ends up on 404, and this one has the content I expected.

      • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.mlBanned
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        Yeah I wondered the same. Brendan Eich is not exactly a saint even if the critic is a shitpost platform like Gab.

    • SudoDnfDashY@lemmy.mlOP
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      This isnt the Dissenter fork, it is a different fork called “Braver”.

      • CHEF-KOCH@lemmy.mlBanned
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        It is the same story because the same alt-right people are behind.

  • Gritty@lemmy.ml
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    This is from 2020, I might have to look into whether they abandoned it in favor of ungoogled chromium

    • Gritty@lemmy.ml
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      Looks abandoned

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    That was ages ago

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