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Careful. Trying to sell Brave as a homophobe web browser won't hurt it like you guys think.
I could care less about the personal beliefs of the creator if the product works as intended, especially if funding the creator is optional
Persistent and unavoidable ads are the reason I don’t use original Firefox, so it’s the reason I don’t use Brave anymore. There were other issues too, and although it’s supposedly open source, the Palantir connection is shadier than their Prop 8 connection, which I don’t even consider that relevant since it was so long ago
Why are you not using uBlock Origin?
No, I mean the ads which are permanently pinned to the startpage. Of course I use uBlock Origin with Firefox forks, as most people do, but that doesn't prevent the pinned ads from appearing in the startpage, at least not for me.
Why don't|you set it to open new tabs with a blank page? I have that as my setting and I forgot there were even ads on the start page.
Yeah, I guess I could do that, but aside from that, it is resource-intensive compared to forks.
Firefox does have ads on by default for the startpage, but they can be turned off in the settings in a fairly easy and obvious way. So even as obnoxious and demoralising ads, I don't think it is fair to say these ones are "persistent and unavoidable". (It's not easy to remove the Firefox logo from the new tab page, and that annoys me, but I wouldn't call it an ad.)
Well, I'm dumb and lazy, I don't want to have to do a bunch of shit I guess.