Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros

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• const_void@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image

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• Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• fubo@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As a reminder, Eich was turfed from Mozilla for joining an anti-LGBT hate campaign; and his So Brave browser pushed NFTs and stole money via referral fraud.

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  • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If I’m reading their financial records correctly, the year he left Mozilla was the year he was paid the most, even though he didn’t stick around for most of it. So this retelling of history is, at best, incomplete…

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    • fubo@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fascists lie.

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  • SatyrSack@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh, is that where the name Brave came from?

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    • masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Brave is a peter thiel project.

      Fact.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean, he’s technically better-behaving than Mozilla itself then.

    But I think these endless splits over disagreements and inability to cooperate in the split state are systemic.

    So maybe the whole typical-left “let’s unite and make a thing and boot everyone who shows a sign of rot” is systemically harmful. See, people who show signs of rot - they are the better kind. The really bad people don’t show any signs of rot until it’s too late. Actually they may not show anything, be like Mozilla tops.

    And also one kind of rot is not rot for some people, and the other is not rot for other group of people, and so on. It would be good to build a way of cooperation where people are impeded from cooperation only with whom they themselves disagree, and not the majority.

    Same as my other idea that there should be a way of moderation, where a person’s ability to choose is strengthened with all the amazing technology we have, and not with benevolent MITM.

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    • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      these conservative actually think theres an actual boogeyman" left " in america.

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• noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh that queer hating fuck is still around?

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Most of them are.

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• cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  can’t believe the homophones crypto nut would also be a right wing loon

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s always the ones you most expect

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    crypto, homophobia, fits in with conservatives they all believe in these types of scams.

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  • Xanza@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Right? How could anyone possibly be shocked by this?

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  • socsa@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Look, fool me sixteen times, shame one you. Fool me twenty six times, shame on you. We won't get fooled again.

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    • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on glue.

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• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• arotrios@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How about just:

    Brave: We’re not!

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    and downing dom perrignon for breakfast lunc and dinner.

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• eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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• EatMahPeachez@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  sudo apt remove brave-browser

  k who's next?

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    try out graphene os if you haven’t

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  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is ungoogeled-chromium any less skeezy? It’s not my main browser but every now and then I need a Chrome based browser or some sites just don’t work right.

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    • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ungoogled Chromium does a really good job of taking Google out of Chrome, so far less skeezy. None of that cryptocurrency stuff either.

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• maplebar@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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• solrize@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I didn’t know that word.

  Noun

  glowie (plural glowies)

  1. (Internet slang, derogatory, far-right) A government agent or informant infiltrating an online political space, with the supposed intention of surveilling violent extremists or provoking entrapment.

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  • notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ohh, Thanks I did need a dictionary for the OP, but you still left out the racist 4chan verbiage around the etymology (“CIA N*s glow in the dark”). en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie#English

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    • blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah… didn’t expect Google to plain text that one for me…

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  • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s a bit worse than that, the term started with a slur attached

    Glowie, also known as a Glown*****, is a slang term popular on 4chan’s /pol/ board used in reference to CIA or other governmental agents posing as ordinary 4chan users…

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    • Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The originator of the term is the late Terry Davis, a paranoid schizophrenic and developer of TempleOS. He used to go on angry rants about “glow in the dark CIA niggers”, or glowies for short.

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So it’s a narc, but if you’re racist

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not his first time having a public melty over woke themes. What is it about tech CEOs and advanced brain rot? Are they getting too high on their own products?

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  • sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “You should consider the effects of your words and actions on other people.”

    Tech CEOs:

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Are they getting too high on their own products?

    Yes and they literally have turned the idea of Admin Rights into the Divine Right of Kings.

    “I know how to be an admin, thus I should lead the fucking world.”

    When Cisco helped roll out The Great Firewall of China, they made great pains to explain that all they were actually doing was setting up the hardware and software to do what they were already designed to do. Computers and computer networks were never designed to be democratic in nature at all. Now that computers run the world, these jabronis think they deserve to be the Kings of it all.

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    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      these jabronis think they deserve to be the Kings of it all.

      And are perfectly willing and sometimes even capable to burn the world down for the position

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  • shortrounddev@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Engineer Syndrome. You get mildly good enough at writing Javascript to sell a product and then assume that means you can fix all of society’s problems

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  • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Maybe he’s jealous he’s not as rich and powerful as his ideological peer Marc Andreessen, who turned proto-Firefox from a university project (Mosaic) into a company (Netscape)…

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Andreessen had fuck-all to do with Firefox. He had worked on Netscape Navigator (which changed names several times over the years and is now known as SeaMonkey), but he had left Mozilla years before Firefox, which was a from-scratch rewrite, became a thing.

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• brezel@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For a non-native speaker of english this reads like a core dump. I have zero idea what this dude is even talking about.

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  • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Extremely online echo chamber talk doesnt make sense in any language if youre ourside that echo chamber.

    Him being a 4chan shitbird means most the people here on lemmy likely weren’t going to be clue’d in immediately.

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  • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For a native English speaker who understands everything he wrote: you’re 100% correct. It is a core dump.

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• cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This kind of statement have way less impact when people already have 0 goodwill toward the one that says it.

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• MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply

  Is this racist against the Irish? I mean that is traditional, but sounds so strange.

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  • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Irish need not apply” was a common thing in job ads at one time; asshat here is doing the usual conservative thing of pretending to be unfairly persecuted

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  • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think this is just a CEO likening personal opinions to racial oppression. The example he chose might be a little ironic too.

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh right - that’s why I keep not installing Brave. I knew it was something and then I forget.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My laziness is never getting around to trying out Brave is vindicated!

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• KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We knew Eich was an asshole when he tried to support that amendment in California ages ago

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• reiterationstation@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wow, ketamine is a hell of a drug.

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    usually ketamine would have an opposite effect, other things like alcohol and stimulants will amplify those things.

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    • 10001110101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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.

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• qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Regardless of the CEO, Brave is a great product. The crypto stuff is easy to turn off. Fantastic ad blocking, rarely any problems. What is the best alternative with great ad blocking?

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  • silverhand@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Literally every other browser with uBlock Origin? I am still able to use it even on Chrome.

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  • fatalicus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They stole money by adding donation links to content creators pages, then didn’t give the donated money to the creators.

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    • qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t know what that has to do with my question? I am not defending anything like that

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• silverhand@reddthat.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The fact that he invented Javascript alone makes him a villain. Everything he did after that is just complementary.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Finally somebody other than me says it!

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• SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What’s a glowy? Like, a glowstick?

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  • reddithalation@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    its from terry davis, the schizophrenic talented developer who wrote his own OS (TempleOS) from scratch as one of gods temples or something, however he was pretty racist and delusional, so would see “glowies” of CIA agents or whatever trying to get him, and now the term is used for people suspecting others of being federal agents

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    • yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Let’s not forget the embedded racism in the original claim, which was that “CIA n*ggers glow in the dark.”

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    • Thetimefarm@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      He’s a tragic case but god damn if this isn’t one of the funniest clips on the internet.

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    • sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “Hello, fellow anons!”

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  • erotador@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    4chan term for a CIA plant

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    • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What like a tulip or a pansy?

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  • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I dunno, just more identity politics from the right, apparently.

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• raptir@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• MyOpinion@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Another company going on the list of run by scum.

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• MortUS@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve been trying to move away from Google Chrome for awhile now. Brave was the easiest move for me - it’s super slick and almost exactly like Google Chorme. But they just cannot help themselves from pushing Cryto BS on the startup page like every day - it’s weird. I get they offset advertisements with Crypto, and maybe before The President ran a Crypto rugpull I’d be onboard, but now that the Rich Elites have publicly shown their hand in how they want to use Crypto I just can’t support Brave.

  Anyway, I’ve moved to Opera for the time being. If anyone else has suggestions I’m open to hear em, but like, I’m too used to webkit devtools.

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• electric_nan@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Brave evangelists in shambles.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Glowy” sounds like a perjorative for the sparkling vampires from Twilight.

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• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  so brave.

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• Tregetour@lemdro.id ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This whole thread is a Reddit-style two minutes’ hate session that gets pissy about the language of his post without addressing the content.

  Eich is right to be wary of US Intelligence infiltration of the non-profit sector, and his characterization of the sector’s hiring preferences is probably accurate.

  Also the image presented by the glowies concept is hilarious, and demonstrates again why the Right memes better than the Left.

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What’s a glowie? 🤔

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