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ahh yes brave, the browser that has built in crypto scams, will add affiliate links so they can make money off your purchases, is built on Chrome so has no pretense of privacy anyways, and was created by a guy who donated to anti lgbtq causes. I'm sure they are the ones who will save us from those evil corps who want our data.
Not all crypto is scams, admittedly a lot of it is, but there are some actual genuine innovations such as Monero.
The scam ones are those that are treated as stocks rather than digital cash.
As sad as it is, the Brave and Mozilla issues are unfortunately nearly 1:1
So now it comes down do you want Chromium to support Google's monopoly while having better performance, compatibility, and privacy defaults. Or do you want to buck their monopoly but have more tracking (unless LibreWolf), PPA, and worse performance/compatibility.
Most are just picking what they consider the less bad for their use case.
Nobody's going to save us unfortunately. Unless maybe Servo or Ladybird become a thing.
yeah im not saying mozilla will be our savior, and ladybird/servo are promising but nowhere near complete. the biggest difference is that firefox is open source, you can build the browser with none of that stuff in it, and yeah thats not easy for most users, but most users dont care and wont do it anyways. chrome on the other hand, yeah chromium is "open source" but most of the important stuff that chrome based browsers actually use are not open source, and they are more than willing to take features away from users because if they didnt they would lose money, just like how they have done with manifest v3 and adblockers. at the end of they day we dont have a good browser, and thats a shame, because its a really insurmountable task without proper funding.
What ads does Firefox have?
The Mr. Robot plugin stopped being auto-installed a day after people complained about it back in 2017 (7 years ago), and I don't think this ever happened again, while Brave still does its thing to this day (to my knowledge), I haven't been able to find any info on that second point.
Which fringe political donations has Mozilla made?
Firefox has ads by pocket on your homescreen and sponsored search results to name the two that come to my mind.
Brave did the affiliate link injection in 2020, but reversed and apologized shortly after. Similar to Mozilla's Mr robot thing, it seems to be a one off fuck up that they reversed and apologised for.
Mozilla has made donations to the Mack group who have expressed hatred towards people who are white. It's certainly less dangerous for a minority to spread hateful rhetoric to a majority, but rasicm is still racism, which is bad.
Forgot about the home screen sponsored stuff since it's so easy to disable it, as for sponsored search results, I've only been able to find stuff about sponsored search suggestions, minor detail. Mozilla suggest
I've not been able to find much info on this, the only thing I found was a member's only blog post by luduke (who I don't trus), so I can't say much about this.
I think they're probably referring to adblocking.
No I mean things like sponsored by pocket and sponsored search results.
Ohh, yea those too
completely forgot firefox does that
To be fair, I wouldn't trust stock Firefox indeed, as it also has bad defaults and has demonstrated disrespect to users' consent (like turning on the ad tracking option without even informing anyone). I would rather opt for a hardening user.js or a fork with them pre-applied, like Librewolf.