It’s not explicitly rightwing.
A couple years ago Musk was recommending Signal.
It’s just an example of right wing people recommending alternatives.
How is Brave right wing? Because of cryptocurrencies?
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
jonathan@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The CEO is problematic and right wing, for examples see the most recent paragraphs in his career section on Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Wait, the Mozilla guy who got pressured to resign over opposition to gay marriage is the Brave guy?? Fuck him lol.
Unsurprising he’s also a dipshit about COVID.
grue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Brave’s business model is a crypto scam wrapped in a protection racket. It man-in-the-middles the site’s ads, replacing them with Brave’s own, then holds the revenue hostage unless the site gives legitimacy to Brave’s crypto by accepting it as payment.
For comparison, “normal” ad-blocking consists of an end-user exercising his property right to control the operation of his own computer by programming it not to display the ads at all.
Hopefully you can see how the thing Brave does is very different, and much more ethically fraught.