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by amatecha 943 days ago
Brave? So the cryptocurrency-laced browser made by the guy who donated $1000 to a Republican candidate who the year before said "our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide" and "homosexuals have declared war on nature, and now nature is exacting an awful retribution"? [0] Huh. Really not seeing how that's somehow preferable over the company that.. checks notes.. demands transparency in funding for advertising, and calls for research into how centralized social platforms and their algorithms work and are affecting people -- none of which have anything to do with invading anyone's privacy.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/02/controver...
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robswc 942 days ago
It has built-in ad-block, reading lists and vertical tabs. That's about all I need from a browser.

As for the CEO's donations, I couldn't care less. I don't care who the CEO of Mozilla donates to. I used Firefox for years, even when they (individuals at Mozilla) donated exclusively to democrats: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/mozilla-foundation/recipien...

Mozilla (as an organization) has chosen to participate in political activism and pay their executives ridiculous wages. I don't agree with a lot of the decisions they've made, so I don't use their browser. Simple as that.

Perhaps if the browser was just so good, it was impossible to live without, their MAU wouldn't be dropping... but that's not the case.

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wkat4242 942 days ago
> none of which have anything to do with invading anyone's privacy.

Nor their bedrooms. The gall of people to judge others by their consensual love is something I'll never understand.

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amatecha 941 days ago
Right? I find that ppl who are so afraid of this kind of stuff generally have a view like "I'm worried non-straight ppl will force their views unto me, sorta like I force my views onto them", one of those "seeing in others what is in yourself" kinda thing. Thus their constant fear and outrage about anything different. But seriously, don't worry guys, people just want to live their lives. You know, "live and let live"? What someone wears or who someone "gets it on" with is not an existential threat to your astronomically-inflexible views or values. (Though if your views/values are "LGBTQ ppl have less rights than others", yeah those are definitely going to be deeply and directly challenged, moreso every day, and I'm here to do my part in that, cheers)
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