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carreau | 2 years ago

Project that contains (contained?) porn in the source tree https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/pull/469 and I've heard the maintainer also promotes some quite reprehensible stuff. So I can't support it.

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keepamovin|2 years ago

Didn't know that. That's weird. Seemed like a cool project from the GitHub :S but I was a little surprised I found such a gem that no one had posted in the last year! haha :)

BTW - how did you know that? Where did you hear about that? And what reprehensible stuff? o_O Now you've got me intrigued! haha :)

edit: I looked into it a little more and I kinda have the feeling that this could possibly be a novel-in-this-domain (yet-ancient-globally) way to takeout a potential (in this case, "browser fork") competitor: just plant something morally reprehensible about them, to lie/dissemble to try to trash their reputation and make people scared to associate.

If this were what it is, it would reveal that the simple act of forking (successfully -- moderately) a browser was so threatening to the browser monopolies as to be surprising. This is interesting! hahaha :)

therealfiona|2 years ago

This is sad. I have been wanting a everything from a Chromium based browser that this appears to have on the box.

I can't install this on my work computer, which is where I need to solve the M$ Teams in Chrome/Chromium making my laptop sound like a 747 while slowing to a snail's pace.

Edit: To be 100% clear, my issue is with unknowingly one day the author could accept some NSFW content into the project, and it unknowingly make its way to my corporate issued laptop through an auto-update. The guy opened the door to this type of risk when the content was put there originally. I'm all for easter eggs, but when it's NSFW content inside a thing that people use for work, nope.

snapplebobapple|2 years ago

have you tried librewolf recently? I've been using it for 3-4 months just to get off chrome based stuff and I have been pretty impressed. It mostly works better than chrome and at least as well as brave for all the stuff I have thrown at it (I like the tabs better, I really like the container tabs option so I can stuff the spyware.. err social media in a very isolated framework), I really like that all the extensions I was using on chrome/brave work in librewolf or have better options. My only annoyance so far is bitwarden behaves weirdly in private windows and that's very minor.

keepamovin|2 years ago

I suppose you can just fork it and rid yourself of any lewd or unsavory or otherwise, uh, repulsive to your person content?

Gow8876|2 years ago

Depends on what kind of porn. Society needs porn. If it is legit adult porn stuff, that's ok. I would prefer donating to legit porn cause than any political superpacs. You know, some societies view politicians worse off than whores. At least whores earn honest work. You have no idea what kind of unprotective act those politician exposed to (I have decades experience in this industry, it is way more dirty than Hollywood shown)...I can name a few: Feinstein, Biden, Pelosi, AOC, Mitt, etc.

keepamovin|2 years ago

I may not want to know...but, pray tell, a little bit?