scy (@scy@chaos.social)
chaos.social
So #Kagi is now partnering with #Brave, i.e. the company of Brendan Eich, who has been CEO at Mozilla for eleven days before he had to leave due to massive criticism of his homophobic views. Brave's most well-known product is a browser with its own cryptocurrency, co-designed by Eich. A feedback post asking Kagi to reconsider has been closed by Kagi's founder Vladimir Prelovac because "Considering company x founder political views is not a factor in [their] evaluation". https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave

Quite a controversial decision… I love Kagi though, but I don’t understand why they would want to drag Brave into this.

  • AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    10 months ago

    That is kinda disappointing. I had a distaste for Brave after all the initial controversy regarding the ad blocking, which only got worse from the crypto crap they now have in the browser.

    I’ll still keep paying for Kagi, but this is a step in the wrong direction in my opinion. Let’s hope at least the results get noticeably better.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Don’t forget the Brave CEO being ousted from Mozilla for being massively homophobic, donating money to try to overturn the right for gay couples to be married.

      E: and them injecting affiliate codes when you copy some links, tracking users. Particularly bad when they relentlessly market themselves as being private

      • Jin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        These days it’s easy to get label as -phohic

        Men can’t pregnant

        Men aren’t women

        • Facebones@reddthat.comEnglish
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          10 months ago

          You don’t get labeled as “phobic” for thinking that - you get labeled as “phobic” because you’ve made it, and your complete inability to mind your own business, your entire personality.