Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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In their eyes they just made 30 million more customers.
Fucking parasites.
They made Firefox a good number of new customers.
I‘m really anxious for firefox as google is the main financier afaik.
It is a worry. I think we might end up needing to pay for Firefox ourselves.
Not sure firefox will be on our side after the recent ad tracking debacle. If they implement one more anti consumer feature I‘m jumping ship.
Jump ship to what? Not like there's s lot of choices out there. You could always try LibreWolf.
look up ladybird. we may soon have a 3rd browser!
Looks promising. Lets see where it goes. https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird
IIRC, only like 2% of Mozilla spending goes towards FF (I may be misinterpreting something, but I remember 2% being thrown around), so funding FF without rest of Mozilla bullshit shouldn't be that hard. Of course, since Mozilla did spend so little on FF, it's a question how much they actually care about FF and what would happen if they lost access to their golden goose. They shouldn't have problem funding FF, but they probably have other bullshit they don't want to let go and that has more priority for them.
A list of Mozilla's "other bullshit":
You are right, it was unfairly harsh wording, I apologize for that. Most of those products are super cool and important, I've kind of extrapolated it from what I've read in other posts about them spending too much on stuff like events and other, non-developemnt, related stuff that I actually never checked, while also not realizing that they also have a ton of other projects, which mixed with the dissapointment with the recent development about the Meta partnership led to me choosing that wording unfairly.
Friends don't let friends run Chrome.
Couldn't have said it better.
Not only intrusive ads, intrusive trackers too
Remember like 2 weeks ago when Google's very own ad networks were distributing malware?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
It’s not perfect but PiHole will still catch a lot of the ads if you have the know-how to set one up. Tis a relatively cheap and easy solution that has the benefit of being able to block ads network-wide, providing your router lets you set a custom DNS.
Even if my Internet provider forced me to use their router I'd plug my own router in behind that one fuck that.
Even cheaper to just stop using chrome
Screw you Google. Enjoy your antitrust.
Its a good thing I've been using Firefox for almost 2 decades then.
Moved to Firefox some months ago, it's fine. Small adjustment but browsers generally offer high interchangeability
Stop using chrome and move to Firefox, also stop using Windows and more to Linux.
You can get a pass till July 2025 by creating/setting a registry key that they made for businesses.
Paste this in a .reg file and double click it.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome]
"ExtensionManifestV2Availability"=dword:00000002
At this rate people should just cut the cord with google. Modifying reg files is almost as annoying as moving bookmarks over. Firefox + uBlock + pihole (if you’re feeling ambitious/want to block other crap that’s non-browser related) and you’re chillin.
you could instead just download firefox, which isnt perfect either but still a huge improvement over any chromium browser
And thus, this day will be remembered as the great browser migration.
Bust this trust.
I'm not sure what Mullvad is based on - i think it's on Tor, which is Firefox based?
I do use mostly LibreWolf, but if FF also went to shit, I wonder if Tor, and thus Mullvad, would keep on going or not. Because I suppose LibreWolf would have troubles with keeping up, if Mozilla would enshitify FF, since they would probably have to fork and continue development on their own.
Browser engines are ridiculously complex, nearly on the level of operating systems. All of the Firefox forks are really just different UIs built around Gecko/Quantum - those other projects aren't really maintaining their own engines, they're dependent on Mozilla's work to remain stable, secure and relevant.
mullvad browser is based on FF
This is the perfect time to go aggressive on telling your friends to switch to Firefox
If it keeps going on like this, it won't be long before I'll just say fuck it and switch to elinks...
Hmm, on that note - is there any CLI web browser that can do javascript and css? Because iirc, elinks doesn't, though I havent used it in years.
The title should be "Google pulls plug out of Chromium"
Too bad that even when people start switching, people writing drafts for the W3 spec are mostly Google employees. I'm sure that'll be their next battleground.