Brave CEO once said some mild hurty words about a fragile group, and so the lefty hive must not publicly support his endeavours (whilst using his JavaScript all day long lol).
IIRC, the guy donated some money to some anti-LGBT groups back when he was CEO of Mozilla Corp. People associated it with Mozilla in general (even though they were personal donations, not from Mozilla) and he ended up having to resign. He then founded Brave.
Honesty I feel more antipathy for him (and Andreesen) for saddling us with Javascript, but I understand why people don't want to use his products.
That's fine, and a reasonable reason to dislike and boycott usage. What's weird about the HN response is the silent down voting instead of calm explanation like you just did. The topic turned into moving from Chrome, and only Firefox was essentially mentioned.
People only focus on Firefox as an alternative. Am I missing something?