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The IRS rules governing nonprofits still required the Mozilla Foundation to beg big to go big: the parent had to go find big grants from Soros, Ford, Knight, MacArthur, and give smaller grants to many. This put it in the lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply revolving-door personnel sector of NGOs and nonprofits (too many glowies there for me, too). Which meant I had a hostile MoFo over my head the minute I got CEO appointment from the MoCo board...

Of course I can't comment on anything about my exit, for reasons that only the most loopy HN h8ers still can't figure out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251203

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[–] TheLastOfHisName 7 points 30 minutes ago (1 children)

Old guy, here...

WTF is a "glowie"?

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[–] slaacaa 24 points 3 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 hours ago

Brave has always seemed shady to me. I mean it has built in crypto spam.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago

brave is just chromium, i wonder when google wants to cut them off down the line.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 hours ago

Good thing I quit brave a few years ago when they did that Crypto shit.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Oh that queer hating fuck is still around?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

Most of them are.

[–] arotrios 53 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Someone's been munching Elon's Special K for breakfast. New marketing tagline just dropped tho:

Brave browser, because you'd have to be brave to use a browser built by a Nazi

[–] ivanafterall 12 points 3 hours ago

How about just:

Brave: We're not!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

and downing dom perrignon for breakfast lunc and dinner.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Wow, ketamine is a hell of a drug.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

usually ketamine would have an opposite effect, other things like alcohol and stimulants will amplify those things. much like musk, he probably uses alcohol alot too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

IDK, ketamine is kinda similar to alcohol; more psychedelic. As someone who has always struggled with depression and has done ketamine, it does seem like it would be a good fast-acting, but short half-life anti-depressant (the afterglow lasts well after the buzz). Never knew anyone who abused it habitually, long term. Heard it messes up your bladder.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 hours ago

Right wing asshole shows to the world again that they never improved and are even more of a right wing asshole.

This is why I never used Brave anything longer than a brief look. Fuck this dude, I'm glad Mozilla removed him.

[–] [email protected] 184 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (5 children)

can't believe the homophobic crypto nut would also be a right wing loon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

crypto, homophobia, fits in with conservatives they all believe in these types of scams. either they buy into crypto, or they are peddling it-themselves.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 11 hours ago

It's always the ones you most expect

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[–] maplebar 51 points 11 hours ago

Jesus, this fucking paranoid bitch can barely string a sentence together. He must be neck deep in the techbro CEO k-hole...

Also, as an Irish leftist, he should leave my people out of his delusional and incoherent ranting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (6 children)

Is there a good mobile browser that...

  • Supports adblock?
  • Doesn't have as many rendering issues as Firefox on mobile sites?

I know the latter isn't Firefox's fault, but it still impacts the end user.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago

Can't say I experienced rendering issues with ff mobile

[–] nyamlae 7 points 4 hours ago

To expand on your second point in case anyone isn't sure what you mean:

Different browsers render webpages slightly differently, because they use different "engines". The most popular browsers are Chrome or Edge, both of these which use the Blink engine, whereas Firefox uses a different engine called Gecko.

Web developers want their websites to work for most people, so they develop websites that are optimized to run in Blink, which means they sometimes don't look as intended on Gecko (Firefox). It's not Firefox's fault that developers are doing this -- of course developers want to reach the most users possible. There's nothing wrong with Gecko, either -- if it were more popular, then developers would build sites for it instead of for Blink. But, this issue of sites breaking can sometimes turn people off.

(Conversely, I develop for Firefox first, so sometimes webpages I make don't render properly in Chrome/Edge. That's not ideal, but I don't care much. I think Gecko is the better + more consistent engine, and I'm not interested in chasing mass appeal.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Ever since I switched to GrapheneOS, Vanadium has been working well. Never had a problem with Firefox + ublock, or Librewolf (except with a corporate intranet webapp that specifically required users to use Chrome).

[–] drmoose 21 points 7 hours ago

Firefox + ublock origin + android is the best browsing experience on mobile.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

While it's a Firefox fork, Ironfox works great for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

for mobile, but for desktop theres like zen,floorp, "librefox, maybe",,etc. they all still depend on mozilla to survive though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Cromite on Android checks both those boxes. Ad blocking isn't great, but the developer isn't Brave.

Firefox + uBlock Origin might be better if you haven't tried that specific extension before. It works more than okay for me, but I realize YMMV and that's especially true for non-flagships

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Cromite doesn't seem to allow opening supported links in other apps for some reason

[–] [email protected] 65 points 12 hours ago (10 children)

sudo apt remove brave-browser

k who's next?

[–] mostlikelyaperson 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Maybe zen browser! Idk, my only hope is either Ladybird or Servo producing something usable this decade.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 44 minutes ago

I like Zen ! Ladybird Pre-Alpha is scheduled for 2026, so, yeah, maybe this decade.

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