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OKCupid urge browsers to ditch Mozilla Firefox in gay rights row

on Apr 1, 2014 | 0 comments

By John Glenday

Dating website OKCupid has waded into the row surrounding Firefox CEO Brendan Eich, a prominent opponent of gay marriage, by urging its users to ditch the web browser in favour of Google Chrome, internet Explorer or Opera.

Visitors to the OKCupid site are currently being presented with a short message explaining the firm’s stance, describing Eich as ‘misguided’ and an ‘enemy’.

In a statement the dating site said: “Politics is normally not the business of a website, and we all know there’s a lot more wrong with the world than misguided CEOs. So you might wonder why we’re asserting ourselves today. Read full story ›

Source: The Drum