As a reminder, Eich was turfed from Mozilla for joining an anti-LGBT hate campaign (and thus alienating a whole lot of developers, sponsors, and users); and his So Brave browser pushed NFTs and stole money via referral fraud.
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Fascists lie.
Are you sure? You can't just lie on the internet. Who would lie on the internet? Is it even possible to lie on the internet? I don't think it is.
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Oh, is that where the name Brave came from?
Brave is a peter thiel project.
Fact.
can't believe the homophobic crypto nut would also be a right wing loon
Look, fool me sixteen times, shame one you. Fool me twenty six times, shame on you. We won't get fooled again.
It's always the ones you most expect
crypto, homophobia, fits in with conservatives they all believe in these types of scams. either they buy into crypto, or they are peddling it-themselves.
Oh that queer hating fuck is still around?
Most of them are.
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.
Wow, ketamine is a hell of a drug.
Brave has always seemed shady to me. I mean it has built in crypto spam.
brave is just chromium, i wonder when google wants to cut them off down the line.
Oh right - that's why I keep not installing Brave. I knew it was something and then I forget.
I didn't know that word.
Noun
glowie (plural glowies)
- (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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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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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"). https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie#English
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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Another company going on the list of run by scum.
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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?
Literally every other browser with uBlock Origin? I am still able to use it even on Chrome.
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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Except the content of his post also blames the left, which is kind of fucking stupid when the government is undergoing a billionaire coup of the PayPal boys.
Brave browser is a litmus test.
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.
99% of people don't care about the things that you care about, and use the products they enjoy using. Classifying people by the web browser they use is crazy talk.
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