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Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine (itsfoss.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 88 points 6 months ago (23 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.

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  • [–] 56 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    Brave is also backed by Peter Thiel.

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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Just wait till you find out who funds Firefox.

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  • [–] 33 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Could it be... Satan?

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  • [+] 28 points 6 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 6 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?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 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

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Brave is also backed by Peter Thiel.

    First I've heard of that. Source?

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  • [–] 13 points 6 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 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.

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  • [+] -15 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    This doesn't bother me. The gays have won equal rights. Their push for acceptance and parity with straight people has been wildly successful. It's like if I found out the CEO of a company I love financially supported anti-pet lobbying groups...good luck taking away people's cats and dogs.

    The only rights gay people might have not won involves adoption, but I feel like thats anti-man more than anything else. Society doesn't feel comfortable giving a person a child unless there is a woman involved.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I started reading this and thought it was ironic but then i saw the pet example and that made me think......... but then i realized im getting rage baited... yay so nice to use the internet nowadays

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  • [+] -9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    I have some pretty contrarian opinions, at least in the context of Lemmy. I used the pet example because I have a cat. I love my cat, but whether or not the people who make my products love cats doesn't concern me. They'd need to be in a position to actively harm my cat to justify a boycott.

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