• Manu@lemmy.world
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    I don’t usually take the software creator’s ideology into account if it works well on my computer. However, I stopped using Brave when I found out that it’s a company funded by Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir and one of the most toxic investors around today. The combination of Brendan Eich and Peter Thiel has now pushed me past the point where I can separate software from its creator’s ideology.

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      6 hours ago

      Brave Browser: “Privacy Forward”

      Funded by Peter Thiel of Palantir, the most un-privacy corporation that ever pravacied.

      That math ain’t mathing for me.

      As others mentioned, Thiel is basically a cartoon supervillain. There’s definitely something more sinister at play that he’s trying to accomplish with this “privacy forward” web browser. Not sure exactly what it is, but I don’t trust it for a fucking second.

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      I don’t think “toxic” covers the kind of evil Peter Thiel.

      An actor with mildly spicy views on stuff is “toxic”.

      Thiel bought a fucking Vice President and got him to do a 180 on his views on Trump.

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        13 hours ago

        Technically the order was:

        Buy

        180 on views

        Make him VP

        He didn’t really buy a ready-made VP, he groomed him.

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        This is the guy that Epstein sent an email to saying:

        “Finding things on their way to collapse, was much easier than finding the next bargain.”

        3 days before Brexit vote. Peter Thiel is named over 2,200 times in the Epstein files, confirming their extensive correspondence.

        And Thiel did nothing but sabotage society for finding the next bargain. He’s a caricature super villain from James Bond, that should be at the bottom of a volcano somewhere not funding web browsers.