You would be right with your first guess

What about infosec.pub? Been my home instance ever since .world blocked piracy discussions, and I never had any issues there.

I dont really have problems with YT in Firefox. Just use brave because it’s on my “watching stuff” monitor. Brave did seem to work better during that period where they were being more aggressive about ad blockers but I haven’t seen that for a while.

you should be able to play all the netflix content you need on pretty much any system. here’s a community for troubleshooting that.

it will not, however, get you a second season of anything worth watching. nothing can do that.

Yea, I dont really have problems with YT in Firefox. Just use brave because it’s on my “watching stuff” monitor. Brave did seem to work better during that period where they were being more aggressive about ad blockers but I haven’t seen that for a while.

it isn’t managed directly by Mozilla

I was about to make a snarky comment about how it is, however, owned by an advertising company, but then I found this.

https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/7/waterfox-regains-independence-abandoning-the-advertising-company-system1/

I haven’t heard of waterfox. I use TorBrowser sometimes. But mostly I use LibreWolf. Its based on Firefox also, but without Monzilla

Is waterfox compatible with all or most firefox extensions? Also, can you import a firefox profile, and share between devices? I’m fairly invested in firefox, and would hate loosing functionality

I used Vivaldi for a while. It’s still Chromium, so I would recommend against it. There’s too many good Firefox options to use anything Chromium.

He has nothing to gain from funding such a campaign.

He obviously believes that same sex marriage shouldn’t be performed by the government. If you want to know why, ask him, not me.

That said, I don’t see this as “betrayal,” it was a private donation. The only reason we’re talking about it is because someone dug through his donation history (donations to such orgs are public record) and made a big deal about it. AFAIK, there were no accusations of him treating LGBT people unfairly, only opposition to his donation.

It’s bad enough that they even got the idea,

I’d like to see an explanation beyond, “yeah, we screwed up.” Who signed off on it, and what was their justification?

Your proposed solution sounds fine, though.

Thanks. The idea is that the browser has a vested interest in protecting the privacy of it’s users, so finding a workable solution for both the user and the website should provide some funding for the browser.

But yes, either the browser should block ads so nobody gets revenue or work something out where everyone wins. Profiting off someone else’s content without permission will always be wrong.

Maybe if there weren’t any alternatives, but there are plenty.

Do you have a better suggestion for a chromium-based browser that’s FOSS and has effective ad blocking and tracking protection?

I use Firefox (or fork) most of the time, but I need to test on a chromium browser and need a backup for the odd website that fails on Firefox.

Brave sticks out as the obvious solution here.

Other CEO’s typically at least keep quiet about politics

He tried to. He never advertised his political beliefs, donations, etc. Someone just found out and blasted him for it. For an org that supposedly cares about privacy, that’s pretty alarming!

But under no circumstances will I defend those who downplay or justify Brave’s, and especially Eich’s, actions.

Nor will I. But I will separate my criticism of them.

I’m 100% happy to jump on board an Eich’s political positions hate train, and I probably share the resentment. But I will not jump on a Brave hate train just because Eich is associated with it. I’m happy to blast Brave over technical mistakes it makes (I avoided it for a long time until BAT was deemphasized), but I won’t transfer that frustration into a personal attack on Eich. They can and should be treated separately.

well said

you’re missing the fact that when your political beliefs are that other humans are actually subhuman and not equals

Wait, so believing same sex marriage shouldn’t be allowed means you think gay people are sub-human? That’s quite the leap. It may be true, but you’ll need a bit more evidence than a private donation to a group pushing a bill to ban same sex marriage.

Even if he is literal Nazi trash (big doubt), his company produces FOSS, which can and should be evaluated on its own merits.

Look, I’m married to an immigrant POC. If he supported banning immigration interracial marriage, that would piss me off, but it wouldn’t have any impact on the quality of the browser. I bet CEOs of companies that make a number of products I use have terrible political takes or like Eich, but that doesn’t change the quality of the product.

If he brought his politics into his company, that would be different. But how he spends his money and free time doesn’t really matter to me.

It sounds like you need to step away from social media and touch some grass.

But let’s say you’re right, pretty much every big company is sucking up to Trump, and you’d be hard pressed to find something in your shopping cart that doesn’t benefit someone that supports him. That’s an untenable position.

The better approach, IMO, is to avoid products from companies that mistreat their employees. That’s why I avoid Walmart, Amazon, and a few others, because that sends a clearer message and funnels my money to a better cause.

Avoiding Brave is just virtue signaling, it doesn’t actually accomplish anything. If Brave goes under, Eich will still be conservative and probably still donate to causes you don’t like, but we’ll have one less competitor to Google’s absolute hegemony over the web browser market.

Use Brave if it solves your problems, don’t if it doesn’t. Don’t base that decision on the personal views of the person who happens to be in charge.

It’s everyone’s business that cares about those people.

But is it though?

Believing that same-sex marriage shouldn’t be a government-supported institution isn’t the same as believing LGBT people are “invalid” or “wrong” or whatever.

For example, I personally oppose government-supported marriage entirely (despite being married myself) because I think marriage should be a religious/personal thing instead of an official government institution, and that we should replace it with a series of contracts that grant certain legal privileges (e.g. joint tax filing, power of attorney, etc) in an a la carte type setup (i.e. you may want to join finances w/ someone, but not give them hospital visitation rights). I think we should also allow more than two parties to enter into these agreements to cover a wide variety of unique living situations (e.g. you may want to joint file with a parent that you care for).

I don’t know Eich’s personal political views, and I honestly don’t care, as long as they don’t interfere with his role.

That’s a monumental task. They would have had to create their own ad network similar to Google and then solicit every site on the web to participate.

Not necessarily. For example, they could partner w/ someone like Axate, which basically does just this.

Only because they got caught, and they didn’t refund any of the crypto they earned in the interim.

My understanding is that they can’t really do that, because the payments are anonymous. I could be mistaken though.

When it comes to TOR, mistakes can be a matter of life and death. People only use TOR when they need complete anonymity.

And if that applies to you, you should be very careful about the tools you use. Brave is a new thing and is relatively unproven. Use established, proven tools like Tor Browser.

Not true. I like Our Lord Gaben. I like Meredith Whitaker. I like lots of CEOs.

Eh, I don’t really like Gabe Newell, but I certainly appreciate the investment into Linux. It just so happens our interests align more than they don’t. I wouldn’t be surprised if GabeN’s personal politics were quite conservative, because conservative policies generally benefit rich people like him (the closest I can see is maybe libertarian).

Meredith Whitaker is an absolute treasure, we don’t deserve her.

So it’s ok to buy a Tesla nowadays in your opinion? Genuinely curious.

Yes, if it’s the vehicle that fits your needs the best. Elon doesn’t need your money, and with Tesla getting roasted in the media, you can probably pick up a good deal.

That said, I wouldn’t buy a Tesla for other reasons, such as:

• poor manufacturing quality
• poor reliability (the Model 3 is the “best” and it’s just average)
• poor repairability

I do boycott certain products though, first among them is Wal-Mart, but that’s because I find Wal-Mart to be anti-competitive (drives smaller stores out of business) and they contribute to poor working conditions either directly (i.e. their own products) or indirectly (i.e. forcing suppliers to cut costs). I’ve been boycotting them for ~20 years, and honestly haven’t bothered checking if they’ve improved. I also try to avoid buying from Amazon for similar reasons.

Maybe Tesla is similar to those, idk. I personally don’t buy Musk’s products because I find them lacking, and I haven’t needed any more reasons to avoid his products than that.

I literally don’t care about the political views of the CEO/owner of a company. I dislike Chik-Fil-A’s founder, for example, but I like the food there and the workers seem to be treated well, so I shop there. I especially like that they’re closed on Sundays, which guarantees workers get at least one day off. Whether some idiot gets rich from a fraction of the money I spend on a certain product doesn’t bother me, I mostly care that the business is run well and the product is good.

When did Librewolf stop development?

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/issues/1906

“Hey all, I’m on the LibreWolf team, and it’s true that since the departure of @fxbrit the project has taken a total nosedive when it comes to keeping up to date with Arkenfox and settings in general. We’re still making releases, but settings did not get updated.”

“As @threadpanic said, since fxbrit left we have been in a kind of “maintenance” mode in terms of settings. Mainly because we are really only three people left”

“LW since fxbrit left/died/who-knows has gone to shit - I worked with him behind the scenes to make the right choices and while he would do his own analysis, we always agreed, and his voice influenced them. Now they don’t know what they are doing, and in fact have compromised security and make really stupid decisions. Same goes for all the other forks - really dubious shit going”

Which I think is one of the big issues with OSS projects - many are based around a very small number of people being motivated to work on something for free. And it dies if that stops.

Exactly.

But I’m still confused about what you mean by the “resources” comment re: Librewolf.

“Resources” can refer to many different things, in this case it is motivation/prioritization.

I don’t understand your point.

I was just reading about it in another thread that I don’t remember. Not really “stopped” per se but one of the major devs left and the remaining have admitted they’re not able to keep up. I’ll go and see if I can find it again and I’ll edit this comment if I do.