I don’t usually take the software creator’s ideology into account if it works well on my computer. However, I stopped using Brave when I found out that it’s a company funded by Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir and one of the most toxic investors around today. The combination of Brendan Eich and Peter Thiel has now pushed me past the point where I can separate software from its creator’s ideology.
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2026
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I don’t think “toxic” covers the kind of evil Peter Thiel.
An actor with mildly spicy views on stuff is “toxic”.
Thiel bought a fucking Vice President and got him to do a 180 on his views on Trump.
This is the guy that Epstein sent an email to saying:
"Finding things on their way to collapse, was much easier than finding the next bargain."
3 days before Brexit vote. Peter Thiel is named over 2,200 times in the Epstein files, confirming their extensive correspondence.
And Thiel did nothing but sabotage society for finding the next bargain. He's a caricature super villain from James Bond, that should be at the bottom of a volcano somewhere not funding web browsers.
Technically the order was:
Buy
180 on views
Make him VP
He didn't really buy a ready-made VP, he groomed him.
Brave Browser: "Privacy Forward"
Funded by Peter Thiel of Palantir, the most un-privacy corporation that ever pravacied.
That math ain't mathing for me.
As others mentioned, Thiel is basically a cartoon supervillain. There's definitely something more sinister at play that he's trying to accomplish with this "privacy forward" web browser. Not sure exactly what it is, but I don't trust it for a fucking second.
Brave has ran a bunch of youtube ads. Like raid shadow legends style. That's how I know it's a shit browser
If you don't use Firefox (or webkit) you want Google to control the entire web. Simple as that.
Firefox depends on google for funding and failed massively when they tried to go without them for funding. Google already controls the web.
Wrong. Firefox is still a valid alternative. While those exists Google can't do anything they want. If they will go too far they will have the same issues Windows has.
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Librewolf for everything I can. If something is broken I use ungoogled chromium for that specific task.
BTW if you want to free yourself from Brendan Eich completely, you can't. he made Javascript.
Just wanted to say thanks, this spurred me to swap over to Zen until I hear how that one is also terrible for me however far down the road.
It's good that OG directly linked to the toot but I always hate when dates are cutoff. This toot is from 2024 when Google started introducing manifest v3 which prevented ublock origin from working, hence many people were looking for alternative browsers and Brave was one of the more popular ones. While I would not recommend Brave, I've heard the crypto rewarding program is opt-in and the affiliate link injection was removed soon after getting backlash.
Brendan Eich is still an ass though, and Brave has very bad business practices. Only recently Brave announced a 60$ (free on Linux though) minimalist variant that removes unwanted features like the crypto rewarding program, Brave VPN and AI chatbot which are built-in for the default browser variant.
The fact that they did it in the past is proof that they'll pull shit like that again.
Brave is asking for money to remove the bloatware it has added over the years and to be able to use the original browser it first released.
I stopped using Brave for Peter Thiel reasons. Using Librespped, Mullvad browser, Zen browser and Helium. Helium isn't fully finished, but looking amazing. I like options
I'm a big fan of the duckduckgo browser. Love me the burn-all-the-cookies-and-history bonfire button that make it great as a default browser and I click random links more confidently now that it's my go-to.
Librewolf and you’re done, just look at the settings a bit if you need a website to remember stuff. That’s it, your search is concluded.
Yeah. I stopped using it when I heard about the bigotry. Fuck that. Easily replaceable garbage browser.
And now you can pay $60 to get less of their features!
I liked the idea of the crypto thing they implemented originally, so I opened a wallet.. Actually ended up costing me money. Never made ANY crypto from it
Happy to stick to Firefox. Been using it since the original betas when they added proper theming and addons.
I need a Chromium-based Android browser for a few particular sites that don't work in Waterfox. Whet do you nice folk recommend?
Cromite is what I use when firefox-based browsers fail me. It does the job ok, but I barely use it.
Thanks a lot for the suggestion. But Cromite is giving me javascript errors on one of the pages. =(
Vivaldi Browser 👍
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