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#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Brave Browser - What Is It?

Privacy is actually something, it's supposed to be like a nice thing to have. It's something that should be fundamental to the way we interact with the world as part of our tooling. So when I realized that these accidents, like the third party cookie, the image or script that's tracking you wasn't intended and that all this stuff wasn't intended, I thought probably we should have browsers just block some of these things by default. These were not intended and they're now unsafe. There could be data breaches, malware distribution, bullying and scyops and other attacks on people. Block that stuff, block that JavaScript. All I got is this crappy t-shirt.

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