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      • shady issues in the past from company
      • heavily integrated with crypto (controversial for some)
      • CEO is a transphobe
      • it’s still Chrome under the hood
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        • CEO is also homophobic and a covid skeptic
        • the browser used to modify crypto exchange URLs to add it’s affiliate code to it
        • it used to collect donations for content creators without their consent
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          So you are sure that Google and Mozilla doesn’t employ any homophobics? They obviously have some sort of mind reader?

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            You are right, I should have been more specific. He’s openly homophobic. I’m also pretty sure that’s not the case for Mozilla as he was Mozilla’s CEO and was pushed out over this specific thing.

            I don’t know why you are shifting from CEO to employees.

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      I don’t know, I’ve seen answers to this so many times on Lemmy.

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      I’ve seen this answered so many times it’d make your head spin, looney-toons style. If you don’t know then you haven’t been paying any attention.

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      My personal reason, I looked at their code and it was amateur town. Hacked together trash. There’s a proper way to modify Chromium and they didn’t follow any of it. In contrast, Vivaldi’s coders knew what they were doing. I don’t actively use or support Chrome, but if you’re going to do something, do it right.