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[–] rainwall@piefed.social 12 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 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 49 minutes ago

Rust is faster than JavaScript.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

...because he also founded firefox?

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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?

[–] winni@piefed.social -2 points 3 hours ago

i guess they receive some cash to distribute brave malware