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uBlock Origin will soon stop functioning in Chrome as Google transitions to new browser extension rules.

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[-] princessnorah 5 points 3 months ago

Personally, I think I should be able to expect a company to understand their target demographic well enough to know that those "features" wouldn't be well received. But I also personally don't consider ads and crypto garbage to be features. I guess if you do, then it's the perfect browser for you. However, I don't really want to contribute to Google's monopolisation of browser engine development anymore. Nor do I want to use a browser developed by a homophobe. So even if Brave may be slightly "better-working" I would not consider it better at all.

As well, even though I'm a Blahaj member, I'm going to take the time to point out the "Bee Nice" rule of the instance we're currently on. It feels like you're skirting dangerously close to violating that, considering you implied I'm a troll for calling out the prejudicial politics of the founder of a piece of software, which you didn't at all address in your comment. I'm going to attach some resources about it here, if you care to read them at all:

  1. https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/04/04/javascript-inventor-gave-1000-to-support-californias-gay-marriage-ban/
  2. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/gay-firefox-developers-boycott-mozilla-to-protest-ceo-hire/
  3. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/mozilla-employees-to-brendan-eich-step-down/
  4. https://tim.dreamwidth.org/1844711.html
  5. https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/killing-the-messenger-at-mozilla
  6. https://tim.dreamwidth.org/1852118.html
  7. https://community.brave.com/t/brave-needs-to-address-brendan-eich/281044

(Some of these are older, about the push for him to step down as Mozilla CEO, some are newer and urging him to leave Brave, or for people to boycott it.)

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