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BrendanEich

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BrendanEich

@BrendanEich

Co-founder & CEO @Brave Software (brave.com) and @attentiontoken (basicattentiontoken.org). Co-founded Mozilla & Firefox. Created JavaScript.

Joined October 2007

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BrendanEich
@BrendanEich
Jun 8
We shipped Brave Origin, with shields + baseline Brave speed but otherwise minimum browser UX: brave.com/origin (on the brave.com/premium products page). It's another way to support us directly, a fair play _quid pro quo_, because TANSTAAFL (econlib.org/library/Column…).
BrendanEich
@BrendanEich
Jun 23, 2025
brave.com/premium lists all of our premium products: VPN, ad-free search, Leo browser-ai, Talk (no Zoom). Thus the simplest way to support @brave directly is to buy Brave Premium Search at $3/month, for no search ads ever, so we can go even harder against Big Tech. Thanks.
BrendanEich
@BrendanEich
Feb 27, 2025
W T F mozilla.org/en-US/about/le… "When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of
George McHorseman
@GMcHorseman
Feb 27, 2025
If you're not using @BrendanEich's Brave Browser at this point, you get what you deserve.
BrendanEich
@BrendanEich
Feb 14, 2018
Hi, I created JavaScript. You should block JS used for 3rd party trackers, fingerprinting, ads. You should definitely block the new cryptocurrency mining scripts. @brave is one solution; we aim for always-on, tested ease of use. Other solutions exist, require more work of users.
BrendanEich
@BrendanEich
Apr 8, 2016
Replying to @BrendanEich
Who owns your attention? Who owns your web browsing experience? Who gets paid? If not you, then you're "product". Time to get paid. @brave
BrendanEich
@BrendanEich
Sep 13, 2024
Replying to @cliftonaduncan
I miss the '90s.
BrendanEich
@BrendanEich
May 31, 2022
Twitter search quickly confirms that the copy pasta bots are back, all yapping the same "we need a hard 6 month lockdown" chorus. Who is funding these bots? Cc: @elonmusk
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BrendanEich
@BrendanEich
Dec 3, 2021
People I used to follow, including Claire and Gray, justify this in the most non-responsive, factually wrong, and downright propagandistic ways. I conclude they are tools of the state, or of some larger power. Good riddance to them. Best wishes to Australians stuck under tyranny.
James Lindsay, anti-Communist
@ConceptualJames
Dec 2, 2021
BrendanEich
@BrendanEich
Feb 5, 2024
GitHub cofounder.
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BrendanEich
@BrendanEich
Dec 24, 2022
BrendanEich
@BrendanEich
Jan 29, 2021
BrendanEich
@BrendanEich
Feb 2, 2023
Replying to @michaelpsenger
April 1, 2020, the WH presser and Q&A with Fauci at end. Pretty sinister to glibly shift from two weeks to flatten the curve, to lockdowns till shots. People who didn't see it as such were scared, complicit, or slaves to officials in their mentality.
BrendanEich
@BrendanEich
May 21, 2021
Two signs @Brave is winning: 1. A UK SharkTank knock-off liked a copy of our pitch but w/o privacy in the pay user leg, and w/ gift cards not @attentiontoken‍s. They're now desperately trying to recruit from us (nope!). 2. Google lawyers subpoenaed us seeking antitrust relief.
BrendanEich
@BrendanEich
May 15, 2022
Replying to @newstart_2024
Think of Windows with obsolete antivirus updates, except you have to pay for the updates with money and adverse events. Good business model for monopoly on PC operating system (your damaged immune system). Bill’s living in the 90s, in an idiotic biology-as-software cartoon world.
BrendanEich
@BrendanEich
Aug 11, 2022
I know some find the WEF a joke, or a rich creeper club, but its plans get operationalized by the likes of BlackRock. It's no joke, not to farmers such as Jeroen Van Maanen or all of us "useless eaters" downstream of him & his fellows (this isn't confined to the Netherlands). /1
Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger
Aug 11, 2022
Farmers in the Netherlands had been successfully reducing nitrogen pollution for years. Why, then, is the government demanding a 30-50% reduction in livestock? What role is the World Economic Forum playing? I travelled to Netherlands to investigate. michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/green-elitis…