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You can download the Brave private browser at www.brave.com. The Brave browser automatically disables all ads and tracking when you browse any website. The founder of Brave also created JavaScript.

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> automatically disables all ads

Except the ads they're planning on showing?

That's opt-in, and you'd be paid for seeing them.

More crucially: the tokens sold here allow advertisers to show ads to users of the Brave browser.

Opt-in BAT ads. Like the bitcoin-based anonymous auto-microdonations in Brave Payments in beta-testing form today. We'll work to prototype and then propagate the BAT to other attention-based apps (browsers, games, video-players, and messengers).

I think it's ok to name Brendan Eich here. Just saying "[person who] created JavaScript" makes me think "that's either Brendan Eich or someone lying about having created JavaScript"

If he's chosen to be the CEO of a company again, then he's also chosen to put his social/political views on equality into the public sphere again.

political/social views? Isn't this an ICO discussion?

If only this argument had worked for Mozilla.

Yup, I was just trying to work out why @porter didn't say Brendan Eich, but used indirection.

He never did that before when at Mozilla.

A political donation is an act of public speech.

I think it's ok to care about the beliefs and views of the officers and board members of a company.

His hazing and firing from Mozilla really sounded like a concession favoring discrimination.

When you stand in a position of power and privilege, then your responsibilities are (or should be) commensurately greater

That is not an excuse to discriminate against people for having different opinions than you.

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