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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

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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Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box. (connect.mozilla.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Pantherina@feddit.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Its the only thing making is a good choice, while people choose Brave, TorBrowser or Librewolf instead.

Come and join the discussion.

Firefox needs to have some courage. Get rid of all those fake funding by Ad companies. Block Ads and trackers by default. Actually. Dont use damn Google as that contract will run out anyways.

Chrome is the Google browser. Firefox simply offering nothing more (on the outside) than it.

What do you think? Do you use Firefox out of the Box? Or another browser?

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[–] ganymede@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

this is the (un)fortunate reality.

unfortunate in that keeping a modern browser up to date is a serious task when you need to compete with the agenda and scale of google etc

fortunate in that its a relatively simple solution, the community needs to fund the software.

its tough though as i can imagine if they pulled the kind of popup shit wikipedia does, it will just drive people away. what people don't realise ofc is that with chrome you are paying for it (with your data), but for some reason they're not viewed in the equivalent light.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

Most people still don't understand how paying with their data affects things. Even "fuck the govt they're tracking us" types don't care that....... They're literally doing exactly that.

Nobody wants to listen to us and call us crazy until Google decides one day after you move that they don't like your new wifi and permanently lock you out even though you still know your password.

Until people are willing to give up convenience for privacy, we're stuck with these financial models unfortunately.