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Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine (itsfoss.com)
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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 90 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Of course they just had to make it somewhat contreversial by adopting braves adblock engine; brave's ceo or whatever funds anti gay lobbyists.

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 58 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Brave is also backed by Peter Thiel.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just wait till you find out who funds Firefox.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Could it be... Satan?

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It’s Google. So….. yes.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Iirc google only pays Mozilla for a. Having google as the default search engine and b. Avoiding antitrust lawsuits.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

"Only" comes with a lot of implied strings attached. Can Mozilla bite the hand that feeds them? If they can, they should, especially if Google is as evil as they are. If they can't, well, we've identified their master, haven't we?

[–] akwd169@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

What? Seriously?? Those demons just have to finger fuck every pie that ever shows promise of subverting their datamining-advertising empire while pretending to be some force for good that cares about privacy and not being evil

Can we just destroy this hydra once and for all already

[–] TBi@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

People won’t pay for anything, and are then surprised by who actually pays for stuff.

These developers need to eat too.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Brave is also backed by Peter Thiel.

First I've heard of that. Source?

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

His foundation has invested in it per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

Thanks, I knew about some of Brave's controversies but missed that.

I also wasn't previously aware that Brave's CEO, Brendan Eich, was a homphobic shithead, either.

[–] sonofearth@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Bruh everything is funded by some sort of criminal. Jeffery Epstein could have donated to the Mozilla foundation for all we know. You literally cannot tell.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's a very convenient position that absolves you from any responsibility to do anything. Convenient, but I don't think correct.

[–] sonofearth@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As u/TBi said in the comments

People won’t pay for anything, and are then surprised by who actually pays for stuff.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure that's right. It's not like they're giving money to brave. The library itself isn't tainted, and using it doesn't benefit brave or the CEO.

Further, simply supporting a thing doesn't make that thing a moral proxy for the supporter. That path leads to an infinite regress of bad moral choices with nothing being moral.

[–] eah@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Lemmy is licensed under the AGPL which was created at the Free Software Foundation which was started by Richard Stallman who made controversial comments about Jeffrey Epstein in 2019. Don't breath or you might inhale an atom once exhaled by Adolf Hitler.

[–] garbage_world@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

People when open source:

[–] bigmamoth@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Funded what ?