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It’s been a long time coming, but the trust in Firefox and its mother organization, Mozilla, seems to be mostly gone, after a recent commit on the source code removed the “we don’t sell your data” promise, along with a change of Privacy notice and Terms of Use.

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[–] chaoticnumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago

Its the meat in a shit sandwich. If you dont like chrome based stuff, what choice is there.

I hate that this happened, F. Mozilla for this, but its not like I can just dust off netscape or something.

Librewolf while I wait for the enshittification of the internet services to come full circle.

[–] markstos@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Overblown. And most of the posted alternatives either depend on the Firefox project being alive and well, or they are based on Chromium.

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 12 hours ago

This is the problem for me and why I just stick with Firefox. There's only really two options and a bunch of sight alterations and reskins of those options. Three options if you use Apple I guess. And a few WiP Linux browsers based on webkit (I think) that haven't actually progressed all that much in a decade, last I checked.

So when the only two options are Google or Mozilla, I've just stuck with Mozilla. I actually am considering moving over to one of the forks now though. Even if it's just to send them a message.

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I'm gonna keep asking if people are going to keep posting:

Would you pay a subscription to use Firefox, and if no, what would you propose as a means of sustaining Firefox's professional development budget if they lose Google's Monopoly money?

[–] somedev@aussie.zone 3 points 12 hours ago

I would, if they shit canned paying their CEO so much

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

If only my taxes were put toward things we want and need instead of murdering brown people in other countries.

I see a browser as no different than other municipal services.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would like a public email where the same protections physical mail gets are applied with end to end encryption. There are a lot of internet things that should be municipal services.

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Public mail has protections from unlawful access, but is subject to the same search and seizure rules as everything else if presented with a lawful warrant.

The odds of a public email with true E2EE seems damn near impossible to me.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 23 hours ago

politically impossible not technically. so its pretty much like every freedom and right ever in possibility.

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Public tech funds are an amazing use of tax dollars, I would love it if we had more investment in these systems!

[–] TBi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

A few years ago I would be arguing that everything should just be free.

But now I understand that everybody needs to eat so I’d be happy to pay something for a good browser. But most people are like my former self.

[–] femtech@midwest.social 1 points 19 hours ago

I would, I was about to pay for proton before the ceo posted about liking Trump's team. I realized if I wanted privacy I needed to self host or pay for it. I'm self hosting a lot but email is just better running thru someone else I trust.

[–] Tea@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If they did not prove themselves to be a better browser in terms of privacy, then what is the purpose of their existence?

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So would you be willing to pay for a subscription to prevent them from going to an ad-supported business model?

[–] Tea@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

If they kept my privacy 100%, sure I could pay up to 3 dollars a month.

[–] Daerun@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I may be alone in this, buy I don't plan to stop using Firefox in the near future and, despite everything, believe it's not a big deal, at least as of now.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

LMFAO, who wrote this trash? Google Gemini?

[–] AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Its a good moment to plug the Servo project: https://servo.org/

It is it's own Web Renderer, independent of any other(eg. Gecko/Blink) Once it matures enough to be daily drivable, I'm planning on making a PoC web browser with it