• jimmy90@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Brave is actually very good and seems to have a great blocker

    ps. their mobile browser has also been great on older phones

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      5 months ago

      To add: the CEO got kicked out of Mozilla and switched to crypto after he was caught donating to outlaw gay marriage.

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        5 months ago

        that was before 2008 as far as i can tell, has eich and/or the organisation continued to act homophobicly?

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          He got caught sending money to a bigoted organization, got in trouble, and then embraced dark money.

          Until he makes it right to the LGBTQ+ community and makes his finances public, only a fool or another bigot would give him the benefit of the doubt.

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            5 months ago

            i didn’t see any mentions of eich using dark money can you link me to more info? that’s interesting

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      No. Brave has a history of modifying links you click on to add affiliate information. The only time to use Brave is if user agent spoofing for “chrome only” websites doesn’t make it work.