Brave Software, the maker of Brave browser and search, confirmed that it has laid off 9% of its staff across departments.
        • Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          $1,000 to a campaign in 2008. A majority of Californians voted that way, btw. Good chance many of those millions of voters (and campaign donators) make your tech.

          He’s done other things like his covid noise, continuing to use that one 15 years later shouldn’t sway many.

          • _MusicJunkie@beehaw.org
            33·
            1 year ago

            No JavaScript or ads. (…) Prevents Wikipedia getting your IP address.

            Wikipedia is light on JavaScript and has never had ads. You prevent Wikipedia from getting your IP address but instead reveal it to some random third party, combined with letting them know everything you look up.

            What the hell is the point of this. All this does it confuse people and decrease privacy.

            • macallik@kbin.social
              4·
              1 year ago

              This is going increasingly off topic.

              1. Yes wikipedia does have ads every time they fundraise
              2. I use libredirect to complete privacy-focused searches across various front-ends, from YouTube to Reddit to Wikipedia, and my searches are distributed across various instances, so no, a single random third party is not getting all of my searches.
              3. ‘The point’ is to share an article on the guy who owns Brave. I’ve provided additional context about wikiless as requested, but if you need more context moving forward, please do a google search.
              • alfonsojon@beehaw.org
                16·
                1 year ago

                They have ads to fundraise. Wikipedia is one of the greatest archives of knowledge in history. Their clients and website are open source powered by MediaWiki. Of all the sites to use a privacy friendly frontend for, I’d have Wikipedia at the very bottom.

  • Plume (She/Her)@beehaw.org
    14·
    1 year ago

    Brave? You mean the privacy focused web browser which marketing’s is so awful I can’t get myself to trust it, due to how much of it looks like a malware crypto scam, who was made by an asshole who was outed from Mozilla for being a homophobic asshole? Yeah. Fuck Brave.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    1 year ago

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    The company didn’t specify how many people were affected, but it corroborated the development and said the decision was driven by the tough economic climate.

    “Brave eliminated some positions as part of our cost management in this challenging economic environment.

    Several departments were affected, amounting to 9% of our staff,” a company spokesperson told TechCrunch in a statement.

    Last month, Brave introduced image, news, and video results as a part of its Search API.

    Brave has also been testing a native AI assistant called Leo for its browser.

    While it plans to make it available to all users, Brave said that Leo will have a premium tier with features like higher rate limits and access to more conversation models.

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