archonet ( @archonet@lemy.lol ) 121•8 months agoThis 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•8 months agoFirefox 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•8 months agoLadybird isn’t ready yet but one to keep an eye on.
Engywook ( @Engywuck@lemm.ee ) 1•8 months agoNope, 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•8 months agoI want them to disappear.
So you want Google to have a true monopoly over the browser market?
llii ( @llii@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•8 months agoI remember IE6, it was great!
Engywook ( @Engywuck@lemm.ee ) 1•8 months agoI just want Mozilla to die. Anything else is irrelevant.
gentooer ( @gentooer@programming.dev ) 6•8 months agoBut 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.
Engywook ( @Engywuck@lemm.ee ) 1•8 months agoIf you say so…
gentooer ( @gentooer@programming.dev ) 3•8 months agoWhat happened that made you so mad at Mozilla?
gnuplusmatt ( @gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com ) 10•8 months agoshit like this makes me annoyed I joined an instance without down voting
Engywook ( @Engywuck@lemm.ee ) 1•8 months agoYeah, dowvnvotes would surely make you better.
gnuplusmatt ( @gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com ) 6•8 months agoit wouldnt make me anything
InFerNo ( @InFerNo@lemmy.ml ) 4•8 months agoThen use a fork.
Engywook ( @Engywuck@lemm.ee ) 1•8 months agoNope, still.giving market share to gecko, thus to Mozilla.
InFerNo ( @InFerNo@lemmy.ml ) 4•8 months agoAs long as you’re not giving market share to chromium…
Engywook ( @Engywuck@lemm.ee ) 1•8 months agoI am.
Blaine ( @blaine@lemmy.ml ) 1•8 months agoI 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•8 months agoThey probably couldn’t get google drive to work without 3rd party cookies.
corbin ( @corbin@infosec.pub ) 25•8 months agoGoogle 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•8 months agoYeah, this is a loss for user privacy.