Brave Software, the maker of Brave browser and search, confirmed that it has laid off 9% of its staff across departments.
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The company didn’t specify how many people were affected, but it corroborated the development and said the decision was driven by the tough economic climate.

“Brave eliminated some positions as part of our cost management in this challenging economic environment.

Several departments were affected, amounting to 9% of our staff,” a company spokesperson told TechCrunch in a statement.

Last month, Brave introduced image, news, and video results as a part of its Search API.

Brave has also been testing a native AI assistant called Leo for its browser.

While it plans to make it available to all users, Brave said that Leo will have a premium tier with features like higher rate limits and access to more conversation models.


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Only 91% of total layoffs remaining.

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Brave had a workforce? I thought it was one guy’s pet chromium/blockchain project….

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The owner is the guy who created JavaScript and is funded by controversial right-winger Peter Thiel

Also donates money to anti-lgbtq groups

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$1,000 to a campaign in 2008. A majority of Californians voted that way, btw. Good chance many of those millions of voters (and campaign donators) make your tech.

He’s done other things like his covid noise, continuing to use that one 15 years later shouldn’t sway many.

He created JavaScript?!?!

I can excuse controversial right-wing views and homophobia, but I draw the line at creating JavaScript!

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What is this wikiless site?

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It’s a free, open source alternative Wikipedia front-end focused on privacy.

https://github.com/Nangjing/wikiless

Basically you search wikipedia w/o tracking.

No JavaScript or ads. (…) Prevents Wikipedia getting your IP address.

Wikipedia is light on JavaScript and has never had ads. You prevent Wikipedia from getting your IP address but instead reveal it to some random third party, combined with letting them know everything you look up.

What the hell is the point of this. All this does it confuse people and decrease privacy.

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This is going increasingly off topic.

  1. Yes wikipedia does have ads every time they fundraise
  2. I use libredirect to complete privacy-focused searches across various front-ends, from YouTube to Reddit to Wikipedia, and my searches are distributed across various instances, so no, a single random third party is not getting all of my searches.
  3. ‘The point’ is to share an article on the guy who owns Brave. I’ve provided additional context about wikiless as requested, but if you need more context moving forward, please do a google search.
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They have ads to fundraise. Wikipedia is one of the greatest archives of knowledge in history. Their clients and website are open source powered by MediaWiki. Of all the sites to use a privacy friendly frontend for, I’d have Wikipedia at the very bottom.

Brave? You mean the privacy focused web browser which marketing’s is so awful I can’t get myself to trust it, due to how much of it looks like a malware crypto scam, who was made by an asshole who was outed from Mozilla for being a homophobic asshole? Yeah. Fuck Brave.

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