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[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[Eich] donated $1,000 in support of California's Proposition 8 in 2008, which was a proposed amendment to California's state constitution to ban same-sex marriage.

Even though I do not agree at all with the donation and support - out of the things that influence me into choosing a browser, 15 year-old private donations of appointed CEOs is pretty low on that list.

And the whole BAT thing is opt-in and they're very transparent about it. I don't get why people get so triggered when the C word - crypto - is involved.

[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

But the data collection sounds like it's counter to its supposed goals. Multiple campaigns have been discussed that just make it believe they don't actually care about privacy considering all the ways they keep trying to do stuff is counter to that. Why stay? Tor Browser is available. Hell, Firefox itself is already able to take you pretty far and extensions can do the rest.

Why make the sacrifice of your personal data? Like, how many attempts at collecting personal data do you need to have occur before you realize it's always been their goal?

[-] Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I would also imagine there are a lot of people that did not support same sex marriage back in 2008 that do now. I do not know the Eich personally, but it doesn't make sense to hold this stuff against people until we find out if they have or haven't changed their views.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

15 years ago isn't that long ago - and there is a huge difference between "not supporting same sex marriage" and "donating against same sex marriage".

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

15 years is a long time. I know someone who did a complete 180 on their beliefs within a few years: from a conservative, homophobic, and religious pov to the exact opposite. I myself changed some political views I had 5 years ago.

I have no idea about Eich, but if I let this affect my choices of anything, frankly I won't do anything else in my life facing the millions of variables before me.

[-] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure, he donated $1000.

California voters approved prop 8 by a sizable majority. It was thrown out by the courts. That kind of dilutes my “oh no” over one persons donation. We’d need to boycott a good portion of Californians.

Today I think it’s relevant to point out he was an outspoken against masks, shutdowns, and was calling Fauci a liar. Basically everyone’s conservative family member in 2020.

[-] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Of appointed CEOs who quit after 11 days to boot. But he was CTO prior.

But looks like he was largely ousted very fast with all the negative PR Mozilla was getting.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

It's not like he's backed down from his position against gay people over the years.

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