@[email protected]  🐢Jul 23, 2023
reminder for everyone who may have missed it the last few times

the only reason that brave browser exists is because its ceo was kicked from mozilla for being a homophobe & transphobe

by contuing to use that software you are activity supporting and promoting a company that not only hates lgbtqia+ people but was born out of that bigotry

brave browser is also filled with many not very cool things everything from cryptocurrency scams to link redirection to so much more

there are tones of other chromium , webkit , or firefox based browsers that do can do most everything that brave browser can do or more in terms of "privacy" and just as much or more on terms of useability

please i urge anyone who cares enough about these things to have installed brave in the first place to migrate form brave to something better

heres some good alternatives to try

firefox , chromium , librewolf , ungoogled-chromium , gnone web, kde falkon , qutebrowser , tor browser, thats just a few tho id mostly suggest one of either ff, ch, lw, unch
Show threadFlame SoulisJul 24, 2023

@julia_ @julia_ Okay, just stop.

I don't even use Brave, and the amount of BS regarding this kind of stuff is getting out of hand.

First off, a simple Google search shows he wasn't kicked at all from Mozilla: they wanted to keep him, but due to the controversy with a donation from 2008 (6 years before he left), he stepped down himself and ignored Mozilla's pleas to remain on. Bear in mind, half the board also left in response. Take that as you will.

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Show threadTobey 🦊

@flamesoulis @julia_ yes the donation was in 2008 but he was given the option to apologize for it, to say his views had evolved. All he had to do was issue some boring statement "I'm sorry I hurt people. I was wrong. I will do better" instead he doubled down and implied that because Mozilla was a global organization and because homophobia was still widely accepted in countries such as Indonesia that it was good for Mozilla that he was homophobic.

More recently he insisted on adding some right wing conspiracy site to the default brave search providers and when people pushed to get it removed he doubled down.

We all use all sorts of shitty products and services made by shitty people who contribute to shitty systems. That's just part of living in the modern world, and if Brave's the best solution for you that's fine. I still buy things from Amazon for instance despite all my moral qualms about it. But I think it's pretty clear that Brandon Eich is a shitty person.

Jul 24, 2023 at 10:31amWeb
Show threadFederico Damián SchonbornJul 24, 2023
@TobeyFox @flamesoulis @julia_ do you have a link for the news feed thing?
Show threadTobey 🦊Jul 24, 2023

@FedericoSchonborn @flamesoulis @julia_

I misremembered! It was adding an option available for Brave search not news feed

https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/5475

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Infogalactic

Add infogalactic.com to Search prefs · Issue #5475 · brave/browser-laptop

This URL seems like the straightforward basis or template: http://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?search=&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go (from a blank search box on infogalactic.com => click on the magn...

GitHub
Show threadFederico Damián SchonbornJul 24, 2023
@TobeyFox @flamesoulis @julia_ thanks 
Show threadJovica PopovicJul 24, 2023
@TobeyFox
You failed to mention the biggest source of misfortune and despair he foisted on the world: JavaScript. Now, that's a crime.
@flamesoulis @julia_
Show threadFlame SoulisJul 24, 2023

@jpop32 @TobeyFox @julia_ That's his contribution?

Where's the pitchforks...