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You linked to me praising Waterfox, which is a Firefox fork, for blocking ads by default with a method that's faster than with extensions.
I listed six sponsored things people will see on a new Firefox installation, things you admitted you don't see because you run a "heavily customized" copy of it. You can claim I don't know what I'm talking about, but things don't stop being ads just because you ~~don't see~~ don't mind them.
I stand by what I said. I will let people read my comment in this thread and our comments in this post (there are multiple threads that are relevant):
https://piefed.social/c/opensource/p/1952631/waterfox-to-integrate-brave-adblock-engine-with-search-ads-enabled-by-default
Let people make up their own minds.
What are people supposed to see? That you nitpicked my statements, accused me of not addressing every nitpick, and when I finally did... You decided to leave and then continue the argument here (not addressed to me but specifically complaining about that detail)?
Seems way more like you're just dredging up days-old personal drama disguised as a callout post.
For the record, I'm not a fan of Brave and its bigotry and unethical practices, and that extends to every company that engages in the same.