- archonet ( @archonet@lemy.lol ) 121•2 months ago
This is your daily reminder that Firefox and its derivatives exist and should be used wherever possible if you care about Google not having a monopoly over the internet. There’s even a Firefox-based version of Discord called Datcord.
- jherazob ( @jherazob@fedia.io ) 21•2 months ago
Firefox is the only reasonable alternative to the Chrome monopoly right now, yes, but they too are going bad, we need more alternatives
- Drewski ( @Drewski@lemmy.sdf.org ) 5•2 months ago
Ladybird isn’t ready yet but one to keep an eye on.
- Azdalen ( @azdalen@beehaw.org ) English1•2 months ago
unfortunately, its based on c++… so could be a security nightmare unless they are very very careful :|
- outerspace ( @outerspace@lemmy.zip ) 3•2 months ago
What do you think chrome and safari are written in?
- Azdalen ( @azdalen@beehaw.org ) English1•2 months ago
To my knowledge, the chromium devs have said (and i am paraphrasing here) that maintaining such a large C++ codebase from a security standpoint is a figurative nightmare. I think they have only recently begun to start migrating some code to rust or other languages (i’m not 100% if they were also looking into Zig)
- wdx ( @wdx@feddit.org ) English1•2 months ago
Pivot to suggesting to rewrite it in Rust in 3…2…1…
- Engywuck ( @Engywuck@lemm.ee ) 1•2 months ago
Nope, not going to use anything from Mozilla. They don’t even deserve the minuscule market share they have right now. I want them to disappear.
- gentooer ( @gentooer@programming.dev ) 15•2 months ago
I want them to disappear.
So you want Google to have a true monopoly over the browser market?
- llii ( @llii@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•2 months ago
I remember IE6, it was great!
- Engywuck ( @Engywuck@lemm.ee ) 1•2 months ago
I just want Mozilla to die. Anything else is irrelevant.
- gentooer ( @gentooer@programming.dev ) 6•2 months ago
But why? I get that it’s bad that Mozilla has to except money from Google and such to fund their development, but Firefox and Thunderbird are damn nice pieces of software that are way better than anything else on the market.
- Engywuck ( @Engywuck@lemm.ee ) 1•2 months ago
If you say so…
- gentooer ( @gentooer@programming.dev ) 3•2 months ago
What happened that made you so mad at Mozilla?
- gnuplusmatt ( @gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com ) 10•2 months ago
shit like this makes me annoyed I joined an instance without down voting
- Engywuck ( @Engywuck@lemm.ee ) 1•2 months ago
Yeah, dowvnvotes would surely make you better.
- gnuplusmatt ( @gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com ) 6•2 months ago
it wouldnt make me anything
- InFerNo ( @InFerNo@lemmy.ml ) 4•2 months ago
Then use a fork.
- Engywuck ( @Engywuck@lemm.ee ) 1•2 months ago
Nope, still.giving market share to gecko, thus to Mozilla.
- InFerNo ( @InFerNo@lemmy.ml ) 4•2 months ago
As long as you’re not giving market share to chromium…
- Engywuck ( @Engywuck@lemm.ee ) 1•2 months ago
I am.
- Blaine ( @blaine@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 months ago
I just uninstalled Firefox yesterday after it came out that they are collecting user data by default. If I’m going to be tracked either way, I might as well use the browser that’s actually supported on sites I use so I don’t have to keep ignoring the “Firefox is not supported and some features may not work” warnings 5x a day.
- aard ( @aard@kyu.de ) 28•2 months ago
They probably couldn’t get google drive to work without 3rd party cookies.
- orcrist ( @orcrist@lemm.ee ) 3•2 months ago
Nope, sorry. That technical hurdle is easily solved. In reality, this is about advertising and snooping.
- corbin ( @corbin@infosec.pub ) 25•2 months ago
Google worked on Privacy Sandbox/Topics API/FLoC for at least five years, and it couldn’t get something that advertisers, regulators, and users could all agree on, so it’s just falling back to the thing that worked (but has next to zero privacy protections). Sigh.
- NaibofTabr ( @NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ) English10•2 months ago
Yeah, this is a loss for user privacy.
- orcrist ( @orcrist@lemm.ee ) 1•2 months ago
I think that’s a matter of perspective. IMO it didn’t work, it was broken, that’s why we’re even talking about it.