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I give a shit that the people building my tools are injecting their politics into my tools in places where they don't belong. Browser makers being happy to deci
by soundnote 5y ago
I give a shit that the people building my tools are injecting their politics into my tools in places where they don't belong. Browser makers being happy to decide what I should see on the web will make me bail.
Now, there are of course parts of politics that are pertinent to the tool in question - privacy issues for browser developers, for example, or tracking.
Both the Brave and Vivaldi teams have people I know I disagree with politically. But I like their products, and I like the companies? Why? Because whatever the companies' employees views, the two companies' politics are about user control and privacy, and they walk the talk. Both in their own ways that reflect the people making the tool, but insofar as the companies are political, they are political in a very, very narrow way.
Basically, they understand their job is to make hammers and not to sermon about flower arrangement. Mozilla (and much of the tech sphere, sadly) is increasingly the reverse.