Former Mozilla CEO Launches Security-Centric Browser Brave

rudy_wayne writes: Former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich has launched a new Chromium-based browser called Brave. "Brave blocks everything: initial signaling/analytics scripts that start the programmatic advertising 'dirty pipe', impression-tracking pixels, and ad-click confirmation signals," Eich wrote on the Brave site. Former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal said in a blog post that "the web is broken," with current browser vendors unwilling to tackle the dilemma of blocking ads, while looking at alternative mechanisms for funding content. Gal said it was ironic Brave was a for-profit operation that can make money from reducing advertising.

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Re:Good on Brendan

[KGIII]

I don't have that much money but, and this is a bit embarrassing, I sold my company for a 9 digit sum back in 2008 - when there were "shovel ready jobs." (I did traffic modeling - including pedestrian but that's not important for today.) I gave away, counting taxes, over half of that amount - it was a HUGE sum of money. Yet, I now have more money than I had before. How? Well, I like to invest in small, novel, or interesting things. A good example (and you can do the math yourself) is that I bought 2000 shares of Tesla when they were $24 each.

Point? Don't paint with such a broad brush. You'll miss the finer details. You'd shit a brick if you knew how much I donated each year - and yet I still keep making money faster than I can reasonably spend it. So, I find what looks like a good cause and figure out how to make a semi-anonymous donation (I ask to not be included by name) and call it good. Hell, I've even donated to NASA.