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The IRS rules governing nonprofits still required the Mozilla Foundation to beg big to go big: the parent had to go find big grants from Soros, Ford, Knight, MacArthur, and give smaller grants to many. This put it in the lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply revolving-door personnel sector of NGOs and nonprofits (too many glowies there for me, too). Which meant I had a hostile MoFo over my head the minute I got CEO appointment from the MoCo board...

Of course I can't comment on anything about my exit, for reasons that only the most loopy HN h8ers still can't figure out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251203

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[–] conicalscientist@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Brave browser is a litmus test.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Always has been. I considered anyone who used it slightly sus until further proof. And if they basically advertised it, I considered them too far gone to try anything else.

[–] EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's a bloody web browser.

How many people do you think actually sit down and do in depth research and analysis into the CEO's personal beliefs, employment history, and associations before deciding which piece of software they'll use to look at cat pictures?

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

When it's owned and operated by a literal open bigot and the fact it only became popular after the bigot was removed from his office chair because of it, I have every reason to question why someone uses a browser that promotes crypto, and steals from the content creators it said it funds.

[–] EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 5 days ago

It's a web browser. You just blanket assume everyone who uses a web browser is aware of everything that said web browsers governance has said or done.

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