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.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.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.On the desktop, Brave has Tor, IPFS and WebTorrent built-in—no additional plugins needed.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.