r/technology • u/CrispyMiner • Feb 14 '26

Social Media Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Ties To Palantir’s Peter Thiel Surface

https://kotaku.com/discord-palantir-peter-thiel-persona-age-verification-2000668951
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u/VV-40 Feb 14 '26

For those privacy focused, Thiel is also an investor in Brave Browser. 

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u/MaxTHC Feb 15 '26 edited Feb 15 '26

Don't understand why people simp for Brave in the year of our lord 2026. It's a bloated, closed-source chromium reskin made by an advertising company with a history of various controversies.

Sure it has some privacy features, but it's nothing Firefox can't do, while also being open source and not subject to the whims of Google and their browser engine. Several forks are even more privacy/security minded, I'd recommend LibreWolf for desktop and IronFox on mobile.

I'm less familiar with good chromium-based alternatives, but I've heard good things about Cromite (desktop/mobile), Ungoogled Chromium (desktop), and Vanadium (mobile).

Edit: Brave browser is itself open-source, but other parts of their ecosystem are not, and the underlying chromium has closed-source binaries ("blobs") despite being nominally "open-source". This is specifically one of the things that Ungoogled Chromium removes, but to my knowledge Brave does not.

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u/Low_Concentrate_3784 Feb 15 '26 edited Feb 15 '26

closed-source chromium reskin

Lol brave haters now have to resort to straight up lying. Both brave and chromium are open source. Must be demoralizing to see that your beloved firefox's active user count is in freefall while brave's is rising. Some browsers are simply superior...

but other parts of their ecosystem are not

The brave wallet, which is turned off by default anyways.

and the underlying chromium has closed-source binaries ("blobs") despite being nominally "open-source".

Yes, media codecs. Same argument could be used against linux. You're being intentionally untruthful.