• BeanCounter@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Summary:

    • Brendan Eich’s donation to Proposition 8, opposing same-sex marriage.
    • Backlash and resignation from Mozilla CEO position due to controversy.
    • Creation of Brave Software and fundraising despite backlash.
    • Plan to replace ads with Brave’s own ad network faced legal challenges.
    • Introduction of Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) cryptocurrency for ad incentives.
    • Privacy scandal involving affiliate codes added to URLs for revenue collection.

    Please at least copypaste the content when you post…

    • iByteABit [he/him]@lemm.ee
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      I don’t usually judge by looks, but you can just tell that Brendan Eich is an insecure fragile person with many mental problems.

      I don’t know what’s worse: The whole anti same-sex marriage deal or inventing Javascript.

      Probably Javascript…

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        Oh he’s THAT guy?!

        Fuck that guy. He basically is the reason popups was so damn widespread.

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        I don’t know what’s worse: The whole anti same-sex marriage deal or inventing Javascript.

        Probably Javascript…

        Heh. Made me smile.

        Here, have an upvote! ;)

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      oh sorry! forgot about it adding a description. will do next time.