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[–] czarcasm@kbin.earth 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I use uBlock Origin and disable all the Firefox stuff, no need for two. And now that they are using shit from Brave, I will disable that crap from a horrid company.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 17 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

it's an open source component built on the same system as ublock. it's good for firefox that they add stuff people actually want.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

They could just have easily built in the ublock origin plugin and not gone with braves implementation, a browser that is plagued with justified scandal.

Why Firefox would tie its fate to its disgraced founder is beyond me.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 4 points 2 hours ago

Rust is faster than JavaScript.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

...because he also founded firefox?

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Hes also a bigot that was removed from leadership at Mozilla that has run multiple scams via Brave, all while taking Thiel bucks. What's your point?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 1 hour ago

i think i misunderstood your earlier reply, i thought you were talking about eich as the founder of brave, but you meant that he was the founder of firefox.

yeah he sucks.

i don't think he wrote the adblocker though.

[–] winni@piefed.social -2 points 5 hours ago

i guess they receive some cash to distribute brave malware