lmao, of course he is. I've been bashing Brave since Ethereum markets took off and they did their shitcoin that of course they abandoned two months later. Quit blocking ads with grifter software trash like Brave.
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Imagine being so fucking ignorant that you actually liked Brave even before finding out Thiel was involved. Eich's involvement was already enough (fuck that guy for inflicting Javascript on the world), let alone the fact that its business model is a protection racket wrapped in a crypto scam.
(Not trying to downplay Eich's bigotry, BTW, just trying to raise awareness of all the other underappreciated ways that he sucks.)
Brave always reeked of VC money with all the promotion they do. It genuinely turns me off whenever I see supposed "for the community" software with heavy marketing.
What's his bigotry?
He's publicly against same-sex marriage and was a firm supporter of Proposition 8, an amendment to the California Constitution defining marriage as valid only between a man and a woman, which was later overturned in federal court.
Tried to block same-sex marriage in California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Appointment_to_CEO_and_resignation
Eeeep I am one of those ignorant people. Had no idea. Funny enough I switched back to Firefox a few weeks ago for other reasons.
What??!!?? That Peter Thiel? Could you give me a link about that?
Thanks for the info, Brave has just fallen to the Chrome level for me now
Anyone know any alternatives on iPhone they could recommend?
Brave is the chic-fil-a of web browsers.
Its the web browser that cuts babies in half, burns them, and sells their charred, lifeless bodies on a bun to homophobes for lunch?
TIL. I hope that evil fucker dies (of natural causes, but soon, please).
Die sooner with any cause
Im okay if he dies in a car crash, 'act of god', falling into a centrifuge, being on an elon musk rocket, private billionaire submarine, cthulu breaching the walls of reality, shredded by an angry ghost, eaten by giant possibly magic possibly engineered spiders.
There are a lot of ways it woukd be cool for him to die.
Hell; I'd be pretty psyched about some of these for me.
Eich is a homophobe, cryptobro and the inventor of javascript.
All of these are unforgivable.
Is Eich a homophobe?
Yes. He donated to an anti-gay-marraige org.
Do we do Reddit here? Because I can post shit load of my posts and comments being removed due to them being critical of Israel - and that was well before the current genocide chapter. Mods there are awful and admins are even worse.
BTW I now realised who unpopularopinion mod may have picked up from 🤔
Reddit is the corporate shill of the internet. The shareholders, did you ever think of them when you criticized Israel?
Do we do Reddit here?
Unfortunately
Thiel has his creepy hands everywhere nowadays. Doesn't surprise me the least bit.
Especially his boy toy fell out of a multistory building(sound familiar) under suspicious circumstances last year, it barely made the news outside of Florida and was on Reddit for one day. When he start expressing concerns about thiels anti lgbti- support via the gop. Thiel definitely don't want the news to be widespread.
Damn. So, assuming it’s true, what would be a suitable alternative? Is Firefox compromised or nah?
Thanks a lot for the tip!
Librewolf & Waterfox are hardened firefox but if you are more on focused on looks i think Zen is better
Zen had some really concerning security/privacy concerns recently, which called into the question the competence of the creator, so I'd be wary of it.
Community reports of other privacy concerns being ignored
that really is very concerning
Even if Firefox were compromised by megalomaniacal shitheads, it would still be worth picking over any Chromium-based browser because every Chromium-based browser helps cement Google's hegemony over web standards.

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