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[–] danhab99@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why was appointing Eich as CEO so controversial? It's because he 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.

Besides this I cannot find another good reason not to use brave. Nobody point to a specific line of code that ruins privacy, not enough reasons.

[–] heird@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you've read all the way up to that line and closed the article didn't you ?

[–] danhab99@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There were 3 points:

  1. CEO is a dick: not enough of a reason

  2. Swapping ads: I have ads disabled anyways so what do I care. If I did care I wouldn't block ads in the first place

3.1. Promoting/friendships with crypto: ¯_(ツ)_/¯

3.2. Privacy leak: it happens ¯_(ツ)_/¯

3.3. Partnering with weird people: ¯_(ツ)_/¯

3.4. IS AN ADVERTISING PLATFORM: ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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