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Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

He didn’t push for any company policy change, didn’t advertise the donation, and didn’t use company funds (used personal funds), so it really shouldn’t be anyone’s business.

It’s everyone’s business that cares about those people.

How he votes or spends his personal money shouldn’t be relevant at all.

Using products from a company that benefits him is empowering him to do those things.

Brave should have worked with major websites to share revenue

That’s a monumental task. They would have had to create their own ad network similar to Google and then solicit every site on the web to participate.

they weren’t affiliated with the creator in any way.

Yes, that’s the problem.

Yeah, this is totally wrong, and they reversed course immediately.

Only because they got caught, and they didn’t refund any of the crypto they earned in the interim.

Mistakes happen.

When it comes to TOR, mistakes can be a matter of life and death. People only use TOR when they need complete anonymity.

they should have instead had a big warning when enabling this (e.g. many sites will break if you enable this).

They did indeed have exactly that. It said in the actual setting itself “Strict, may break sites”.

You probably wouldn’t like the CEO of any company whose products you like, so basing a decision of what product to use based on that is… dumb.

Not true. I like Our Lord Gaben. I like Meredith Whitaker. I like lots of CEOs.

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