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Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Summary:

Brendan Eich's donation to Proposition 8, opposing same-sex marriage.
Backlash and resignation from Mozilla CEO position due to controversy.
Creation of Brave Software and fundraising despite backlash.
Plan to replace ads with Brave's own ad network faced legal challenges.
Introduction of Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) cryptocurrency for ad incentives.
Privacy scandal involving affiliate codes added to URLs for revenue collection.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't usually judge by looks, but you can just tell that Brendan Eich is an insecure fragile person with many mental problems.

I don't know what's worse: The whole anti same-sex marriage deal or inventing Javascript.

Probably Javascript..

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh he's THAT guy?!

Fuck that guy. He basically is the reason popups was so damn widespread.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

JavaScript is also the whole reason that the web is interactive. Without JavaScript the web would be mostly just static pages without any client side dynamic behavior.

Brendan Eich is a tool, but JavaScript is a useful tool, at least.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think I'd prefer a mostly static web. Guess I should finally check out ublock origins medium mode or whatever its called.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I think I’d prefer a mostly static web.

Me too, gemini looks promising https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Forms are interactive and dont require me to run your shitty code and execute it on my computer.

Keep that shit running on your server. I dont need another vector for malicious code to run on my machine

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

JavaScript?

Like, we use JavaScript everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I'm viewing this comment without JavaScript.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I don’t know what’s worse: The whole anti same-sex marriage deal or inventing Javascript.

Probably Javascript…

Heh. Made me smile.

Here, have an upvote! ;)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

oh sorry! forgot about it adding a description. will do next time.