Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now.
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Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now.
tl;dr: "LOL get fucked"
They've decided who their customers are, and it's not you, it's people who build and invest in surveillance advertising networks. But in a "respectful" way....
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@[email protected] I keep seeing people talk about this, but like... what options are there other than Firefox and Chrome these days? Everything else is like based on one of the two, right? Safari didn't use to be, but I thought I saw someone saying it's Chrome based now.
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@deathkitten @jwz Fortunately, Safari is not based on Chrome/Chromium. Of course, that's no help if someone doesn't use Mac/iPhone/iPad
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@jwz Mozilla got distracted with lots of side-projects, and have squandered the funding they have received over the years. Is anybody really surprised they have now embraced enshittification to the next level by actively getting into bed with advertising?
Perhaps we need to rethink the browser. I just want something to safely fetch and display html. No more. No less. Do I really have to go back to dropping into the cli to use Lynx?
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@jwz I'd love to hear the perspective of someone that actually has positive feelings about this.
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Natasha Nox ๐บ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธreplied to kerplunk last edited by
@kerplunk @deathkitten @jwz Given Mozillas fuckery recently there are some new web engines in the makingโฆ but they ain't ready yet.
It really is time for some capable org to hard-fork thoughโฆ perhaps someone should petition @eff or some other to do so. Mozilla is just full of shit at this point.
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@mauve You already did, their titled is "Overpaid CEO". If you click the link, there is also full-throated support from "Overpaid President".
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AS HAS BEEN FORTOLD BY PROPHECY:
This thread has now descended into the noise-parade of people asking, "But what other browsers are there??" followed by responses of, "Here are 5 sketchy forks of it that get no development and that nobody uses".
We've already covered all of this ad nauseam in the Previouslies, just a couple months ago. How about reading those instead of covering all that ground again?
You Will Not Be Saved.
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@jwz Ah! I meant users of firefox. Like, I have a hard time imagining a single user that wouldn't feel negatively about this.
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@[email protected] I was hoping to learn something new. I have notโevery suggestion has been shit I've either already tried or eliminated as a viable option before even installingโother than I had somehow been misinformed on the direction of cloning between Safari and Chrome. >.< Oh well.
This is why we can't have nice things. -
@deathkitten You can't have nice things because there are no nice things. Nice things were officially deprecated in 2005 and have now reached the end of long-term support.
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Fabrice Desrรฉreplied to Mauve ๐๐ last edited by
@mauve @jwz Looks like https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1fvvvls/why_in_my_opinion_what_mozilla_is_doing_with/ is happy. I did not read the post though.
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Mauve ๐๐replied to Fabrice Desrรฉ last edited by