Online dating site OkCupid is presenting Firefox visitors with something other than the standard home page you’d normally encounter – instead, there’s a lengthy message apologizing for the interruption and explaining that OkCupid opposes the political views of Mozilla’s new CEO Brendan Eich, who made donations to a campaign in support of California’s anti-LGBT Proposition 8 campaign.
Eich is the inventor of JavaScript, but the donation in 2008 has resulted in a fairly widespread call for his removal as CEO of Mozilla, even from voices within the company speaking out on Twitter. OkCupid says in its statement that while they wouldn’t normally venture into politics, and they essentially admit that there are bigger fish to fry, they still take particular issue in this case and felt the need to speak up. Specifically, they say equal marriage rights for same-sex couples are an issue because around 8 percent of all relationships begun on their platform would be illegal without it.
The offer a pass-through link if you still want to continue to your destination, as well as redirect links first for the other major browsers including Chrome, IE, Opera and Safari. There’s also a brief paragraph of relative background information, which includes why not only the 2008 donation, but also Eich’s public statements since then lead OkCupid to believe he maintains his anti-LGBT views.
We’ve reached out to Mozilla to see if they have any statement in response to this move by OkCupid. The full text of OkCupid’s explanation is in the screenshot below.
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