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Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
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[–] jalda@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"some dude" is the CEO. Has the CEO of Mozilla donated money against same-sex marriage? If not, you are the one who is engaging in "poo-flinging".

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's literally why Eich was made to resign as Mozilla CEO: his anti-LGBTQ+ history is poison for one hell of a lot of web engineers.

Internet engineering, as a field, has always been rather queer.

"There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being touched by a gay program. That's kind of funny." — Eric Allman, author of sendmail

[–] jalda@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

Exactly. The ex-CEO. Emphasis on ex. Mozilla took the right decision, Brave didn't. That is literally why the "both-sides" argument is ridiculous.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He's probably done some horrible thing

Edit: yep https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/mozilla-ceo-eich-resigns-after-controversy/

Brendan Eich steps down following calls for his ouster over his support for California's anti-gay marriage Proposition 8.

Wow, on the nose. Literally, yes.

[–] stevenm2406@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, he stepped down as CEO of Mozilla and is now CEO of Brave. I’m not sure if you’re joking or genuinely didn’t notice that they’re the same person.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah but Mozilla isn't tainted by it? Come on, that's ridiculous. He's not building some anti-gay code into the software, the homepage of Brave (or Firefox) isn't "lol fuck the woke".

Dig into any company, or any CEO, you'll find something to get angry about. People are people. Products are products. Open source products especially so.