Mastodawn

🐢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

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Flame Soulis Jul 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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Psittacus cafeina Jul 24, 2023

@flamesoulis @julia_

And at Brave he was part of keeping KiwiFarms afloat long after it otherwise would've been sunk.

Do you not see how there's a difference between the organization that he (and the rest of the homophobic trash, seems, but that part of your spiel doesn't appear to be accurate, regardless) left a decade ago vs. the organization the fascist is at right now?

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Flame Soulis Jul 24, 2023

@caffetiel ...how? I'm looking around and not finding any articles to support that claim. Granted, I did find a mention regarding him saying some bad comments about Covid-19 in Dec 2020, and that's pretty bad, but nothing with KiwiFarms.

As for whatever 'claims' I had? I went to DuckDuckGo, typed in his name, and read the Wiki article and the sources.

If we're going to brand based on organizations and their leaders, then most people are in the wrong, at no fault of their own.

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Flame Soulis

@caffetiel I'm all for calling people out when they do something wrong. Based on articles I did find, he is no saint by any definition.

I'm just so tired of people twisting the bad to 'worse' and then claiming they have all the right because it's justifiable to them. If it's REALLY justifiable, it can be done on its own merit. Cut it out with stretching truths to make your narrative seem better. That's all I ask.