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Cake day: September 7th, 2023

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  • I am all in favor for spreading donations across many - especially smaller - projects. I think that there are two levels to donations:

    • The monetary one. Donating helps fund development either by paying for a full-time dev or by helping the dev stay financially stable to do a bit less work hours so they have time for the project.
    • The psychological one. Most people that publish their code online are not expecting this to become big. And when a stranger from the internet appreciates their code enough for a donation this is a huge motivational factor.

    I even tend to think that donating 5€ more to GIMP is less valuable than giving the money to some random project.














  • For further explanation of any point, please hit me up :)

    • It is Chromium based
    • It has used dubious methods in the past (replacing links with affiliate links, the whole ad/crypto thing, …)
    • Brave’s business model relies on ads (I think)
    • [This is a weak point, but at least in the privacy community, Brave isn’t super popular. It feels more geared towards the “hyped crypto early adopters”. [1] It might be “fine” for someone switching from Chrome (which is always a good thing) but going all the way would be a modded Firefox.]

    TL;DR For most provacy concious Brave users, Brave is a step in their journey towards more privacy, and not the final destination.

    [1] The “dumb AF tech youtubers” you mentioned in another post are typically the Brave hype crowd. This is not meant to discredit Brave; it’s just that a share of their users are this way.