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  • From my understanding brave is decent for privacy (not great. Just decent). It has a lot of issues though with the founder being a right wing supporter who has opposed human rights and had some covid opposition. It also has had issues like when you used the inbuilt tor system it leaked DNS queries making tor a little useless and ruined a lot of faith people had in them to make decent privacy software. It has also been very cryptocurrency forward. It also stole crypto from a few people through a “bug”. Basically it isnt that brave is currently proving they are a shit browser but there are several issues in the past and controversies that make most privacy focused people not trust it.








  • I’m a little confused by “open source isnt sustainable”. If you mean open source isn’t usually paid development so it is hard for you to live off any income from it I’d be inclined to agree. But there are still ways to turn a profit from open source development. I think red hat and even docker would serve as good examples. For red hat they provide open source code and sell a service while docker provides core open source components while has some features are closed source and paid.

    As others have pointed out privacy without transparency (in the way of making the underlying code open source) isnt a guarantee of privacy its a weak promise at best. While I do think it is difficult to make open source as profitable as closed source, removing openness in its entirety isn’t a solution privacy focused people will accept.

    As an example of a way to make money from this open source project: If you made the code open source and marketed towards companies where you could supply a secure communications network using a familiar interface and offered a license and support to them you’d still be able to make money without compromising the apps ability to create a meaningful network of privacy evangelists to vouch for you.