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That's unexpected but cool!

People, especially non-technical people, still don't ask themselves, how can a company be profitable from a browser? Especially if the browser itself is 100% made by another company but the license permits to be used and rebranded by others. Brave browser is nothing but skin and some config modifications to block Google tracking. But how can a company that raised 42 million dollars make money from a skin and some config modifications that can be developed by a student in his weekend?

The real business model of Brave is obviously to gain enough market share by smearing Google, the company that actually created and still developing the browser, and block its main resource of revenue, Adsense and then make money by replacing the blocked ads with their own, of course this time "private" ad platform. In the mean time they can play with cryptocoin scams but in the end this is the only viable business model. Take and rebrand a browser as "private" alternative to evil big corp that created the browser that their entire business relies on, block ads, wait until gain enough market share and then extort publishers and advertisers to migrate to their own ad platform.

I don't think that "marketing" is the right word for a FOSS project that is not affiliated with any for-profit entity and has no business strategy. Rust is truly loved by many who had the chance to work with it and that's why it's honestly promoted more than any other modern language.

I don't think practicing interviewing should be encouraged even though I know this has been done for years and years. If you want to end up working on something you actually love in a place you like, you should just learn what is interesting to you. Your "dream" job at a FAANG might be more unpleasant and boring than you've been expecting.

Congratulations on the launch. I am not really sure the world needs another website builder but your pricing looks attractive for small businesses outside the west.

Dunno why the adversity in the comments. Great job, OP. I think there is a real need for something like this as the GitHub stars show, I considered using Kubernetes itself as a distributed infrastructure but it may be a bit heavy for many use cases. I think this can be a serious alternative for distributed systems that do not have intention to be built over Kubernetes.

I have some config (afaik found it on ghacks sometime ago) in Firefox that breaks the entire website if it has any HTTP url in it. I rarely see broken websites.

Firefox can do this with some config currenty.

All those people who downvoted me don't understand neither HTTPS nor how this addon works. The addon is only at value when you request an HTTP url for a website that doesn't automatically redirect you to the HTTPS url. It's almost useless since the vast majority of websites automatically redirect you.

HTTPS is already almost everywhere. This addon is pretty much unneeded in 2020 not to mention it did very little anyway.

While I truly understand the point the author makes, I cannot accept that all founders are the wanna get rich type who think that raising money equals a successful company. I think he's biased by the history of the easy money era of the post 2008 recession to pre Coronavirus. I think now things are going to be different and raising money will not be as easy as it was in the 2010s.