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I don't care what his political affiliations are, if the product works I'll use it. What an absolute set of incompetent garbage.
Some of us do care.
A product directly bankrolled by Peter Thiel? A project, not concerned about blocking ads but rather making sure that it's their ads that you see?
If you're on iOS. Maybe the EU will bail you out and force Apple to allow other web engines.
If you're on Android, Firefox works perfectly well and Fennec is a fine fork.
If you're on anything else, Librewolf is fork of Firefox without all of the Pocket and other privacy hostile default settings.
Do you understand that it is completely opt-in and people get paid for those ads?
I don't care what rights they want to curtail, if they say they'll lower my taxes by a nickel I'll vote for them!
Someone's been trying to push this agenda against brave, because I've seen this same post a few weeks ago.
It's quite annoying, especially since most of these people complaining are keyboard activists and don't do literally anything IRL