So #Kagi is now partnering with #Brave, i.e. the company of Brendan Eich, who has been CEO at Mozilla for eleven days before he had to leave due to massive criticism of his homophobic views. Brave's most well-known product is a browser with its own cryptocurrency, co-designed by Eich.
A feedback post asking Kagi to reconsider has been closed by Kagi's founder Vladimir Prelovac because "Considering company x founder political views is not a factor in [their] evaluation".
https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave
Quite a controversial decision… I love Kagi though, but I don’t understand why they would want to drag Brave into this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Collection_of_donations_on_behalf_of_content_creators
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Insertion_of_referral_codes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Appointment_to_CEO_and_resignation
I wasn’t aware of the tipping controversy. That’s not a good look, but I don’t use their crypto features (apart from IPFS every once in a while).
No tech company is squeaky clean in 2024, and Brave’s baggage seems better than Chrome’s.
There is also Vivaldi to consider.
Brave ain’t exactly perfect, but at least they aren’t sucking at the tit of Google’s Search monopoly.