Building the web since the mid-90's. Regional Manager of The Office references. Microsoft Alumni, Stack Overflow mod no 4. Building a better Web @brave πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡§πŸ‡·

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Love God. Love people. Foster an insatiable curiosity about the World around you, and work hard.
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Raise, raise a song in high The virgin sings her lullaby Joy, joy, for Christ is born The Babe, the Son of Mary!
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I have been purged. This morning I woke up and found a thread wherein people were discussing censorship, apps, and more. Several comments on the popular thread had mentioned Brave. I responded to nearly all of them; none of my responses were mean-spirited or rude. Yes this. Odd.
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I just got a response from their moderators. I'm banned because I work at @brave; everybody who works with me is (or will be) banned as well. Purging those who are gracious, respectful, and helpful is how you wind up with a very one-sided, toxic community. What a tragic policy.
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Warning! Dissenter for Windows and Linux hasn't been updated since March, 2020. For macOS, it hasn't been touched since November, 2019. The GitHub repo is stagnant since mid 2020. Chromium receives more than a hundred security patches yearly. Dissenter remains unpatched & unsafe.
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Firefox appears to have ran an in-app "disinformation" study where users could report how they learn about politics and COVID-19. Data collected covered the sites they visit, links shares on social media, age, gender, sex, political affiliation, and more. ion-extension.prod.dataops.m…
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TIL Firefox uses the 'chrome' protocol for internal resources. I assumed this was only the case for Chromium-based apps.
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