Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web
Not only does Firefox have to worry about Chrome and Safari, now there’s Brave on Mac/Windows/Linux/iOS/Android.<p>Brave is co-founded by Brendan Eich, who co-founded Mozilla. Brave is doing all the things Firefox should have done: create a new ecosystem for a secure and private web, while Mozilla is still taking millions from Google in exchange for making Google the default search engine.<p>Although the invasive ads are blocked by default, users can opt-in to privacy preserving ads and get paid in Basic Attention Token, which can be used to support the over 300,000 and growing registered content creators.<p>On the desktop, Brave has Tor, IPFS and WebTorrent built-in—no additional plugins needed.<p>Yes, it’s based on Chromium, which feeds into the monoculture narrative. But there’s the irony of the guy who started Firefox using Chrome’s engine to attempt to kill Google’s surveillance capitalism system.