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Firefox + Ublock = 👑 (lemmy.fosshost.com)
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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I’m really hoping Google’s antitrust case doesn’t kill Mozilla. Over 85% of Mozilla’s cash flow is dependent on Google paying for that search box.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If Mozilla stopped paying his CEO millions of dollars... and if they actually financed development with people donations...

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago

We don't know what they pay their new CEO.

[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't think google wants to get hit with another antitrust lawsuit for web browsing, so I am sure they will figure out some other deal to funnel money to Firefox

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Good point. Could be like MS and Apple in the late 90’s. When Apple was on death’s door, Gates invested in Apple so MS would have faux competition for regulators.

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

How convenient that this happens just a few days after Firefox implements the features that have been blocking me from switching for the last few years.

Still, I'm curious about other browsers. We know Chrome is killing V2, but what about other Chromium-based browsers? I saw below a comment espousing Brave, but I'd rather use Chrome than Brave because of the gross crypto bs. What about Vivaldi, Opera, and Chredge? Will they keep supporting Manifest V2?

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[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

I really hope there's a significant rise in Firefox -and derivatives- usage share. It will be good for everyone, even those stuck on Chromium browsers.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

my issue with firefox atm is that both twitter extensions I use have been hobbled/removed by it for what looks to me to be spurious reasons.

https://github.com/kheina-com/Blue-Blocker/discussions/294

https://github.com/dimdenGD/OldTwitter/discussions/752

inb4 "lol @ using twitter in 2024" I just steal memes from it, and mastodon/bluesky simply aren't up to speed yet.

Weighing options though I'll go with Firefox and shitty twitter experience rather then Chrome and the ads everywhere experience. Not really a contest there. Just idle complaints.

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

"And then Mozilla management comes in from the top rope with the chair"

Seriously, for profit companies should not own open source projects.

[–] Chakravanti@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You can't stop that. But you can use Librewolf if video download helper stops ignoring Librewolf.

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[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Mozilla's slowly creeping in the surveillance with adding integrated crap like Pocket and AI driven Fake Spot. I'm really glad Librewolf's made a privacy focused fork of their browser without all that nonsense.

[–] menixator@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Related announcement: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution

TLDR: Mozilla wants your data and it's opt out. If you're on FF 128 it's already on and you will have to turn it off manually. Shame how they have fallen this low. The LEAST they could have done is show a pop up announcement when the user upgraded to 128.

Also: +1 to Librewolf. Mozilla is definitely going to try more scummy crap like this in the future. Definitely the better option over Firefox.

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Can't wait for ladybird to come out! Finally something that speaks our language.

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[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I just read that whole article and it sounds like a good implementation? Companies want to know how effective their ads are, and I like their approach of trying to find a way to provide this without wholesale personal data collection. They even say at the end that they don't get the data either. It sounds like a reasonable thing to try and standardize.

[–] menixator@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago

I'm not commenting on implementation itself but rather on how Mozilla went about with an opt-out approach into the collection program (even if it was for testing) to a community they have cultivated with the promise of privacy.

Collecting my data is a big deal. It doesn't matter how it is used. I should at least consent to it.

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[–] yuf@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm using AdNauseam instead. So ad networks, what exactly are you collecting?

[–] ivn@jlai.lu 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Click fraud is a big thing, with lots of counter measures, I don't see how they could go past them as they are saying themselves that they have a very naive approach. To me it's useless at best, but more probably counterproductive.

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[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Sadly Mozilla is becoming the next Google of web browsers.

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[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 0 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Still the best browser, even though the majority left it for the speed they think chrome has.

[–] anas@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m back on Firefox now, but I did originally leave it because Edge had the speed. Not sure if that’s because it’s more optimized for Windows.

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