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- firefox@fedia.io
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- firefox@fedia.io
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Can’t wait for the followup piece to be a shitty ad for brave.
I just play League: Shadow Legends on my phone through double NordVPN accounts (if you sign up now you get two, so you get double protection) with Incogni. My news? Ground News.
Those are the four internet companies I use for my day to day business. I also buy a lot of tshirts and merch. I got a coffee cup with a cat on it, in a funny pose.
Lastly, If the news gets you down, then do what I was told to say, use Better Health. Picking someone who works for you can be difficult, and here at Better Health, you are able to switch to a different mental health proffesional, free of charge. Join our glorified chat service passing for mental health, today.
Lastly, lastly, do not forget to purchase my brand new power energy slop or lunchables for your kids, they are almost food. The lunchables, not the kids.
I don’t like Brave’s leadership or crypto, but the problem for me is that Brave ticks the most boxes
- Adblocking
- Privacy
- Security
- Multiplatform
- Web Apps
There are browsers that do stuff better, like Vanadium and Trivalent, but those are locked to specific platforms, have poor built in ad blockers, and encourage you to never install extensions for security reasons.
And if I want to avoid the Chromium monopoly, there’s Webkit which still manages to have good security and privacy, but there’s no Webkit browser on Android and on Linux, Gnome Web feels slow to use and doesn’t have a good adblocker.
That being said, I’m still on Firefox right now. Chromium has some weird quirks on the desktop that annoys me so much.
Why not just IronFox and LibreWolf?
I wouldn’t consider using IronFox since, from what I hear, Firefox’s security is worst on Android. Even Linux has better sandboxing than it. While I’m sure IronFox is better, I’m not sure how much better it can be.
As for Librewolf, I’m considering it. I’ve actually had it installed for maybe two years at this point but never really used it. It’s nice that it removes the annoying popups from Firefox and lacks the crypto of Brave. And it should be more secure due to the hardening and disabling of features. And while the security and sandboxing isn’t as strong as it is on Windows/MacOS or Chromium’s, at least it should be better than standard Firefox.
Meh, until there is an actually good alternative to Firefox with a mature extension ecosystem I’ll continue to use it and just disable the new features I don’t like. I have tried a bunch of the alternatives and they’re all either massively lacking in extensions, are chromium-based, or are sketchy in some way. I think the most promising potential replacement is flalkon, but it’s not there yet and I’m a GTK Stan anyway.
Any gecko-based fork will have everything good about FF (including the addon store) and none of the Mozilla corporation. Waterfox for a seamless de-mozilla’d fork (and nothing else) or Librewolf for extra hardened privacy and fingerprint resistance (plus daily annoyances that come with that).
I switched from FF to WF about a year ago. Copied over my profile folder in its entirety. Didn’t do anything else. Everything worked exactly as if I’d just updated FF.
You know I don’t think I ever checked out waterfox. I’ll give it a look.
After about a year with the browser, I’ll cheerlead it in every thread about Mozilla Corp getting in bed with another ad company or pushing anti-features “that you can toggle off so it’s fine!” into the browser. All the benefits of Firefox as a platform and code base, with no corporation that could profit from you in any way involved. No mandatory ToS, no account, no nothin’. Just a tool for browsing the web, with the full ecosystem of extensions made for Firefox.
I myself will stick to stock Firefox until a credible alternative to Mozilla’s development work on Gecko arises (emphasis on the “work”).
I see this take a lot, usually revolving around “doing your part” to keep that tiny sliver of Firefox usage up in siteside metrics. Decide what’s right for your case, but know that Waterfox and Firefox broadcast the same browser user agent so using WF doesn’t take away “market share” from FF. The only thing using FF instead of WF does to “support firefox” is giving Mozilla Corp your data to “not sell, california just calls it selling” and your clicks on its built-in ads - if you’re turning all that stuff off by hand it’s the same as running WF.
I don’t care what happens, you’ll take my proper Manifest v2 Adblocker from my dead cold hands
This article is dogshit. Not only do they not say what they turned to (betcha its fuckin brave. It always is with these types.)
Its also a two parter, I am not returning for part two I guarantee you.
Am I blind on in this weirdly written article they didn’t mention the said alternative they found? A Firefox fork?
If it is Brave like someone mentioned in the comments, they probably don’t know who Brendan Eich is.
What are they switching to? Pale Moon?
That’s unfortunate
The clickbaitey homeless person tech writeup for pizza rims.
I have been making it a point of trying not to engage with any links with no discussion in the body about the article because of this. This being the rare times I do. I feel like dropping in a link is like my buddy shoving a magazine in my hand instead of stopping and saying. This article here is interesting. It says that…
Bro, I’m the one who should apologize, I wrote that, then something happened and I got lost in the sentence, I have no idea what I was even trying to say, but I just saw that line I wrote and said fuck it.
Edit: Oh now I get it. Hah. That’s funny.
Holy shit, stop crying about the unintrusive and easy to disable AI features or whatever they mean by privacy feature. Are we still spreading FUD about their FAQ changes?
Que the smallest violin in the world…
¿Qué?
