Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic
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Have you tried "un-googled chromium"? Should work pretty much the same as regular chromium in that regard...
Or even just a good old fashioned user agent switcher?
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Lol Brave... Ok
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Switched to librewolf the other day, and it's great
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On ok, so a completely pointless comment. Got it.
At least everyone here knows you switched before then though! Or something!
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+1 for agent switcher
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"Worshipping"? What online spaces have you been frequenting??
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Yeah, I think it would be very fucking easy to say "we don't sell your data" by any definition... Literally all you need to do is not fucking sell people's data
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Fucking what?
What the fuck are you even talking about?
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lmao another Mozilla shitshow
grabs popcorn
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the problem with that is - if everyone switches to forks, development of firefox stops, killing it, and the forks are guaranteed to follow.
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Don’tbe evil -
Don't collect anything on your own and don't sell the things you don't collect. Bam, problem solved.
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palemoon is just firefox from the pre quantum days before the webextension enshittification and all they need is a decent mobile app and their own sync
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I just wish it wasn't using blink
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Hm? Paypal redirects work for me, even in my browsing profile with trimmed useragent and strict same-origin/cookie policy. This one was never a problem, even if no other webäpp worked. Seems they have good fallbacks.
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I don't understand what you mean by Firefox's development is driven by the community? It's not a community contributed open source software; my friend worka on Firefox and is a Mozilla employee.
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The problem is that none of this revenue or profit is guaranteed to go to Firefox. It goes to Mozilla and they decide how it is spent. It could go to pocket, a new overpaid CEO, or a hundred other ways that don't benefit FOSS.
I would have donated hundreds of dollars to Firefox development already, if that were possible, but that is not an option. The only option is Mozilla, and they may spend that on anything else but Firefox.
Also Mozilla VPN is shit. It is a severely limited implementation of Mullvad, and they even enshittified their browser for it. You can only have per container VPN's (a major gain for user privacy) if you pay for Mozilla VPN... They've already chosen to harm their users privacy for profit. This is the kind of shit that guarantees I will never donate as long as a for profit entity has control over Firefox, and its features.
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So... entirely vibes based take. Maybe take some time to step away and come back later.
Spamming a doomerism opinion, when not backed up by anything but feelings, helps nobody. It's an overactive immune response. The fever worse than the illness your body is trying to burn out using it.
I get that it feels like the world is going to shit, and especially when things you thought were trustworthy start doing this, it's a blow. But this shit (repeated as fucking much as you have repeared it) makes the community, and people who need a non-corporate controlled browser, weaker and more vulnerable.
