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Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
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[–] 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.