“but it’s opt in, bro, you dont have to use it” — every Brave stan
We never, as in not ever, offered crypto mining in the browser.
Readit NewsBrendanEich commented on Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features macrumors.com/2026/02/02/... · Posted by u/stalfosknight
Don't forget when they took donations on behalf of other websites and kept the money unless the operator went to the "escrow account" to collect it
The grants came from our token fund, not users' tokens (no way to buy BAT then).
The issue which I found out about late, and fixed right away, was infringing on right to publicity, nothing to do with donations from users' own tokens.
Wild accusations considering this stuff still exists online as direct evidence: https://brave.com/blog/binance/
Also attacking the person instead of the ideas is really not in the spirit of HN.
That blog post is about a partnership (which ended), but you probably saw some sponsored images at the time, in new tab pages (1 of 4 then, I think; the rest are just art images).
These are non-tracking, carefully designed (including vetting by Brave), brand advertising images. They are not ads (we never did this) inserted into publisher pages, or (opt-in only) push notifications.
Brave has been working to find ways to sustain ourselves, and these sponsored images are still a good revenue line, although lesser now vs other lines. If you want, turn them off.
Free riding is always an user right, we don't try to stop it on principle, as if we ever could with open source. But there's no free lunch: if you use Firefox, you are Google's product. If you use a Firefox fork, you're free riding on Gecko which costs a lot to maintain. HTH
BrendanEich commented on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/recvonline
Brave has about 300 employees and don’t break out engineers [0]. One of them is Brandon Eich so that counts for a bunch.
Their revenue is only $52M so kinda what Mozilla would earn off their endowment.
That's all b.s. of the ripest kind.
Yes. But that prototype was in CL.
No. I wrote Mocha in C.
Where did you hear this CL fish story?
BrendanEich commented on CSS now has an if() conditional function caniuse.com/?search=if... · Posted by u/aanthonymax
Knowing what we know, we would probably have stepped out of our time machine to make sure that Brendan Eich kept the Scheme-based syntax and added semantic HTML enrichment for styling, sparing untold grief over the last generation...
I don't know what "semantic HTML enrichment" means, but there wasn't time. The alternative was VBScript and DHTML. DHTML and Netscape's DOM forked Web content based on `if (document.all) /* IE code here */; else /* netscape code here */`, and only with Firefox, Opera, and Safari founding whatwg.org and start HTML5 did we unify everything.
BrendanEich commented on It’s time to free JavaScript (2024) javascript.tm/letter... · Posted by u/pavelai
Eh, JavaScript wasn't the originally chosen name, it was LiveScript by Eich. I've never seen a justification for the name from anyone in the know, other than Eich's musing that Netscape wanted the "cool" factor. That "cool" factor was also why the original task of embedding scheme into the browser turned into a more C/Java-esque flavor.
I didn't pick LiveScript, Netscape Marketing did.
The original codename Mocha was Marc Andreessen's.
This is all in the HOPL IV paper and my Lex Fridman interview.
Well, in fairness to the headline, all of the bad parts of Javascript introduced in those 10 days are still there.
No, == was strict in the ten day prototype.
BrendanEich commented on 30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript" web.archive.org/web/20070... · Posted by u/donohoe
One book covers the DOM and browser APIs, one does not.
Wow, that's a new lie.
Do you have any evidence? This isn't something Brave ever did, but it's easy to make unfalsifiable "There's probably archives" b.s. claims on HN.