Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic
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We are still in a capitalistic. Money still prevails.
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Interesting. How's water fox?
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We still put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share with our partners (which we need to do to make Firefox commercially viable) is stripped of any identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate,
Fuck off Mozilla. Maybe don't pay CEOs millions and don't force things like Pocket and LLMs on users if you want to be commercially viable, I'd gladly pay for Firefox that doesn't make me dodge new features and services. But it would be a donation towards development of a browser that is commons, since you have no product to sell, only GPL'd code that's mine as much as yours.
You have NO fucking leverage, Firefox is better than Chrome, but there's projects that will gladly repackage your code with no telemetry whatsoever for any platform while you're brainstorming just the right amount of monetization to prevent the frog from jumping.
It's kind of sad I don't use Chrome and therefore never think of it, while I like and use Firefox and am therefore constantly at odds with Mozilla.
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What are you using now?
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None of Librefox Waterfox or Ironfox are on Fdroid. So Fennec (aka: Firefox) is still the only FOSS option on Fdroid
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Yep, I have Chrome and its a better browser anyways /s
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I mean you could argue that them defaulting to Google search is already them selling your data. Google definitely pay them for that.
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What operating costs? You could argue there are development costs, but development is driven by the community. The only operating costs are forced stalking behavior.
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Just uncheck all telemetry and never use an account. Its open source so it should be verifiable that data collection is turned off.
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If this is not a parody, I implore you to at least…read the Wikipedia page?
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I’ve been “laid off” by a McKinsey sweep twice in my Silicon Valley career and both times the stated reason was basically for making working software instead of lying and scamming.
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Vs codium is a FOSS vs-code
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You’re a good friend
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Which jurisdictions? What kind of broad way? Give one example please. I dare you.
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Icecat's good too.
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In the US at least, the courts are seemingly bought out.
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Switched yesterday, feeling right at home so far.
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sorry i did try to pretend McKinsey doesn't exist. First I heard of them was pete butigieg.
Look, being gay and married is the most pro family values position conceivable
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I can't remember the details, but if I remember correctly, Firefox used to get a lot of cut from hosting Google's ad. But Google cut that deal and Firefox lost 90% of its revenue as a result. That's why I can't blame Firefox for doing what they are doing at the moment.
Us users want services for free but we can't have our cake and eat them in the current paradigm of the internet. That's why we have to think outside the box and I advocate for a publicly funded internet. It is the same model as NPR and BBC and that is why they have little to no ads unlike private broadcasters. The same principle should be applied to the Internet if we want to keep using it for free.
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browser is ??? you want that g chrome reaching down your throat?
