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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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[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

At this point you are allowed to put "George Soros" in scare quotes too. It is a good time to be alive. /S

[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 11 points 1 hour ago

What the fuck is it with the "Tech Friendly" companies going to shit?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

Is this dude schizophrenic or something? What the fuck does he mean "Irish only apply"?

[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 23 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Between this, Proton and Firefox's change of terms, most of the advice I've seen on tech that protects your privacy seems like it's going the way of the dino.

[–] na_th_an@lemmy.world 2 points 19 minutes ago

Self hosting is increasingly the path forward for the privacy concious.

the only one of these that surprised me at all was firefox going to shit, and that started months ago with a smaller thing.

[–] s0upybl00per@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

What’s proton’s change of terms? I’m not privy.

[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 13 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Firefox changed terms. Proton is just run by a twat.

[–] Stormy1701@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

Proton is great though.

[–] s0upybl00per@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Too bad. Already paid for premium :(

[–] vinyl@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Proton is fine, they use encryption, but don't expect anonymity, since it's email ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

im not aware of proton changing terms, but their CEO announced he has trump's dick down his throat. well, as far as it'll reach. between his lips, at least. so they can't really be trusted to not snitch at this point.

[–] vinyl@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I'm confused what is this about?

[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 63 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Not shocked the fake coin browser has a right-wing CEO.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The origin story of Brave is entirely right-wing. He was forced out of Mozilla because of his public stances on political topics. It's no secret that after being forced out for his politics, he went on to create a new browser company.

yeah brave always felt gross and i remember them doing shady crap for years.

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[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.world 21 points 4 hours ago

For those looking for alternatives, there are a number Firefox forks such as Mullvad and Librewolf and then there's Chromium and it's various forks (just avoid Edge and, now, sadly, Brave)

[–] wipe3257@programming.dev 8 points 4 hours ago

What a clown, nothing new sadly

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 5 hours ago
[–] RandomPrivacyGuy@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago

I WANT TO GET OFF MR. BONES' WILD RIDE!

[–] conicalscientist@lemmy.world 22 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Brave browser is a litmus test.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 hour ago

Always has been. I considered anyone who used it slightly sus until further proof. And if they basically advertised it, I considered them too far gone to try anything else.

[–] MiikCheque@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Vivaldi to replace brave if Firefox is not enough

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Vivaldi is a very good browser, but if you want to support open web standards it would be better to use a non-Chromium-based browser like one of the Firefox derivatives. Also Vivaldi is closed source. Still, I do like Vivaldi.

[–] MiikCheque@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Of course ff over everything. Zen browser is nice too. I say Vivaldi because of the chromium/blink rendering engines, Vivaldi has a consistent track record. They haven't tried to push any crypto down your throat and uBo still functions. They offer a different experience and welcome their community feedback

[–] febra@lemmy.world 51 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This spineless mouth breather just realised there's a buck to be made by glazing other alt-right mouth breathers. At least he can finally be himself now. Thankfully, his product is just google chrome repackaged and thereby sucks major ass.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

just realised

"Just"? No, he's always been open about this, and that's why his appointment as Mozilla CEO was so controversial in 2014, and why the board revolted and he ended up resigning 11 days into his tenure.

The whole origin story of Brave is steeped in right wing politics.

[–] Naevermix@lemmy.world 31 points 8 hours ago

Sounds like pretty standard far right brainrot.

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