{"id":86959,"date":"2016-02-01T07:10:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T15:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=86959"},"modified":"2016-02-01T07:12:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T15:12:21","slug":"brendan-eichs-brave-new-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=86959","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Eich’s Brave New Browser"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: “Brendan Eich, CEO of Mozilla until it was discovered that he had exercised his First Amendment rights as a citizen to participate lawfully in the democratic process, is heading a team building a new browser, alliteratively entitled Brave. It\u2019s intended to block ads and tracking, which seems like a good idea in this Brave New World. You can currently download a 0.7 release for developers if you are into playing guinea pig.”<\/p>\n

COMMENTS: <\/p>\n

* You should note that their plan is to block existing ads on the site, and then *replace* them with their own ads. They say they\u2019ll generously share 55% of the ad revenue with the site.<\/p>\n

I expect people to start writing sites which somehow malfunction if the ads are not present.<\/p>\n

* I believe Firefox was hemorrhaging users well before the Two Minute Hate took him out. I think once Chrome came out\u2013a far more nimble browser vis-\u00e0-vis Firefox at the time\u2013people starting jettisoning it in droves (me among them).<\/p>\n

In any event, I\u2019m curious about this development because Chrome is my preferred browser in terms of usability (Opera\u2019s a close second ), but I absolutely hate having anything to do with Google. (Damn them and their superior products!) Were this to be as fast, stable, and standards-compliant as Chrome, I\u2019ll readily switch over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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