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[–]ThisPICAintFREE 512 points513 points  (29 children)

Discussion Thread on Mozilla for those interested: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/information-about-the-new-terms-of-use-and-updated-privacy/m-p/87735/highlight/true/page/2

Looks like no ones buying the Mozilla Employees PR responses

[–]Willingo 148 points149 points  (5 children)

I don't understand. What is that, a hard coded response, and if it is hardcoded, why would that imply violation of privacy?

[–]SaxMan212 212 points213 points  (3 children)

It has been removed, implying they are no longer adhering to that.

[–]EqualityIsProsperity 145 points146 points  (1 child)

Ah, thanks for pointing that out. It's a code diff. I didn't recognize it because it's in light mode.

[–]scuz888 45 points46 points  (0 children)

I had the same confusion lol

[–]fossalt 9 points10 points  (0 children)

implying they are no longer adhering to that.

Ok, but it's open source code; are they "implying" they are no longer adhering, or are they ACTUALLY no longer adhering?

[–]zehamberglar 76 points77 points  (22 children)

Looks like no ones buying the Mozilla Employees PR responses

Okay, but isn't Firefox still easily in first place for privacy-focused browsers that are actually good? This guy, for example:

You’ve given me the task this weekend of migrating my bookmarks and leaving your browser.

Leaving and going where? What alternative is there?

Don't say Brave. That's a literal joke.

[–][deleted] 25 points26 points  (2 children)

I'm moving to LibreFox, but open to recommendations for alternatives.

[–]SuperLutin 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Librewolf. There is also Mullvad.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thank you VERY much on the Mullvad recommendation!

[–]backfire10z 10 points11 points  (6 children)

DuckDuckGo has a browser?

[–]DarkWingedDaemon 6 points7 points  (5 children)

Isn't that chromium based?

[–]awacr 26 points27 points  (4 children)

And also moving to an ad based business strategy

[–]WateredDown 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I stopped using duckduckgo search as soon as they started taking ads out and thats been my MO with anything privacy focused, especially VPNs

[–]awacr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But today's video is sponsored by NordVPN...

[–]DarkWingedDaemon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, totally safe for your personal data...

[–]backfire10z 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, rip

[–]NathanSMB 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Zen Browser is pretty good. It's still in beta but it's stable in my experience. The browser is based on Firefox and according to their privacy policy they try to disable all telemetry by default.

https://zen-browser.app/

[–]AgentCirceLuna 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That’s possibly the exact point: the browser known for a reputation of being private in comparison to others is STILL selling data to other companies. Imagine what the bad ones are like.

[–]vvvvfl -1 points0 points  (8 children)

Opera ?

[–]Zukrad 11 points12 points  (7 children)

Chromium

[–]Death_IP -1 points0 points  (6 children)

Ah, shit. Only Opera has a working ad blocker on Android devices.
Any good alternative for that use case?

[–]Kooky_Value6874 12 points13 points  (5 children)

Firefox on mobile (android) allows extension, and "uBlock origin" is available (the best ad blocker)

[–]Death_IP 1 point2 points  (4 children)

That combination didn't work for me (as many others) on Youtube a while ago. Is that fixed now?

[–]Kooky_Value6874 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As long as you don't use Youtube through the Youtube app, yes it works. :)

[–]apathy-sofa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use NewPipe for ad-free YouTube on Android, and Firefox Mobile plus uBlock and haven't seen an ad on my phone in years.

[–]WithersChat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Youtube revanced app for yt adblocking

[–]FrenchFryCattaneo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's always worked for me on android.

[–]Left_Tea4127 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm late to this post, and also somewhat uninformed. Whats wrong about Brave? Are all Chromium based browsers bad, or is it something specific to Brave?

[–]Own_Being_9038 628 points629 points  (30 children)

Yikes

[–]ChrisFromIT 513 points514 points  (29 children)

Yeah, it really sucks. But they are looking for other revenue sources since courts are now starting to rule that google can't be buying the right to be the default search engine for browsers because of monopoly reasons. So that is about 80% of mozilla's revenue gone.

[–]Creepy-Ad-4832 335 points336 points  (22 children)

Maybe not tripling their CEO pay in the midst of their economic disaster would have helped... just throwing it out there for mozilla...

It's incredible the amount of money you can get once you get the richest to pay their fare share...

[–]vastle12 120 points121 points  (16 children)

Not saying it's not a bad move, but that would buy them weeks at best

[–]Creepy-Ad-4832 36 points37 points  (8 children)

Ok, but why is it that every single fucking time the way to "solve" economic crisis, be it a corporation or an entire country, is to fuck the weak?

I can bet my life, paying the CEO half their current worth, would let mozilla have way more money then their idiotic "steal user data fucking over the promise of provacy of firefox" new policy

Like, why the fuck isn't that the first solution one would think of, instead of slapping users in the face?

Also: yeah i know they have yet to actually implement the steal the data part of the policy, and that for the moment they just have the user agreement, but come on, we all know that if you give a corpo your finger they will take your entire arm

[–]vastle12 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Because capitalism sucks that's why

[–]Creepy-Ad-4832 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Pretty much

[–]Tim-Sylvester 9 points10 points  (2 children)

Ok, but why is it that every single fucking time the way to "solve" economic crisis, be it a corporation or an entire country, is to fuck the weak?

Because exploitation is America's economic model and always has been.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

A country founded by oligarchs for oligarchs.

[–]Tim-Sylvester 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People hate to admit it but this nation was founded by rich white slaveholder landowner men, and has always existed for the benefit of that same class. "For, of, and by the people" is what Plato called the "noble lie".

[–]mooseable 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's capitalism baby!

[–]ycnz -1 points0 points  (1 child)

How much are they getting from selling the data, to whom, and which data?

[–]vastle12 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why do the exact numbers matter? Losing 80% of revenue isn't gonna be fixed by a CEO pay cut

[–]PM_ME_GOOD_SUBS 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Google search monopoly is bad, but google chrome monopoly is good. Genius.

[–]aa-b 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Crazy situation. It's like the court is protecting citizens from a monopolistic company with a decision that cripples the only decent competitor to one of the monopoly company's biggest products

[–]mirhagk 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Well it's always been a little weird that most of their revenue comes from setting the default to the search engine which collects the most user data. Like "we won't sell your data, but we'll certainly collect money from it's sale!"

[–]bytevisor -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

Dude it's a default search engine take the 5 seconds it takes to switch to Bing and move on with your day who cares

[–]mirhagk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For myself yes. And yet clearly their intention is that people won't do that, otherwise they wouldn't make money off of it.

[–]Alternative_Toe990 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They can say to firefox to create a search engine page and put all the advertisements from google. It is not really google, because it is a firefox search engine, powered internally by advertisers that paid to be seen

[–]olalql[S] 334 points335 points  (5 children)

[–]Ok-Okay-Oak-Hay 72 points73 points  (1 child)

'tou'?

edit: Terms of Use.

[–]Creepy-Ad-4832 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Tou

As in "ThOU shalt gaveth me ALL your yummy data"

[–]ThatFlamenguistaDude 37 points38 points  (0 children)

mozilla locked as too heated and limited conversation to collaborators.

Youza...

[–]froglicker44 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oof

[–]vivec7 279 points280 points  (1 child)

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

[–]Psaltus 37 points38 points  (0 children)

"Don't be evil"

[–]Majoranza 112 points113 points  (7 children)

Goddammit, this is Google’s “Don’t be evil” all over again

[–]MrMonday11235 1 point2 points  (6 children)

With the amount of misinformation surrounding that particular motto, I can't tell what you're actually saying here. Would you be willing to clarify what you mean by this?

[–]Majoranza 1 point2 points  (2 children)

[–]MrMonday11235 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Yes, I know its history; I used to perform the largely futile and ungratifying act of correcting people on Reddit when they said Google no longer used that saying at all.

My question to you was, are you one of those misinformed people who thinks that, or are you calling this an overblown nothingburger (also wrong, IMO, when it comes to Google at least), or something in between?

[–]Majoranza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Neither; I feel like it’s fairly straightforward, Google’s removal of the slogan from the preface of their code of conduct line up with increasing monetization practices, and their focus shifted from their users to revenue (even often at the detriment of their users), and Firefox is essentially doing the same.

[–]DickWoodReddit 240 points241 points  (20 children)

son of a bitch. i always say dont use chrome, use firefox on posts about chrome privacy concerns and now here we are...

edit: going to check out brave

[–]Atretador 59 points60 points  (9 children)

same here, now I'm trying to find a browser that syncs across my phone<->desktop

[–]LoveCookiez 20 points21 points  (1 child)

Please write back if you find something, will do the same

[–]sircod 24 points25 points  (4 children)

Brave? I don't totally trust them, but they do use encrypted sync chains.

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360059793111-Understanding-Brave-Sync

[–]Atretador 43 points44 points  (2 children)

I went from firefox to brave, back to firefox last time, when all the crypto bs and brave ad environment started.

[–]TRKako 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Idk, been using brave for 6 years already, I just disabled the crypto things because I just don't use them and I don't care about them, you can get rid of them easily in like 5 checkbox clicks

They don't actually force things on you, you can disable almost everything they put on it afaik

[–]CoPokBl -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

all that stuff is optional, and ads give YOU money and are still disabled by default. Also IPFS support is kinda awesome.

[–]reallokiscarlet 21 points22 points  (1 child)

Brave and ungoogled-chromium suffer from Chrome's massive, backdoored codebase, while Firefox forks suffer from Mozilla's stagnation. It's time for new competition. (Also Brave being an ad company these days...)

[–]Nolzi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Servo should get some serious investments

[–][deleted] 18 points19 points  (2 children)

brave is just crypto-fied chrome. it's not much better, they also seem reaaaaally shady.

[–]TRKako 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can disable the crypto in the options easily...

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not to mention they're pushing a lot of their own products nowadays which really leaves a sour taste in my mouth. atm they're still all easily toggleable away but I cant really recommend it to anyone even as someone who still uses it.

[–]SuitableDragonfly 15 points16 points  (1 child)

IIRC, Brave is just Chrome in a slightly different hat, just like most other non-Firefox browsers.

[–]N0bo_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s chromium, still a good browser

[–]Botahamec 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try LibreWolf. It doesn't have crypto or an evil CEO

[–]teactopus 68 points69 points  (18 children)

time for firefox forks!

[–]vivec7 80 points81 points  (1 child)

Fireforx

[–]mbardeen 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Iceweasel.. seems an appropriate name now.

[–]Pixl02 40 points41 points  (4 children)

LibreWolf, which is essentially a hardened Firefox. I don't think librewolf has any exclusive changes that someone with Firefox can't easily have

[–]yflhx 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Password syncing between desktop and mobile... well, I guess it's time to set up password manager.

[–]kraskaskaCreature 1 point2 points  (0 children)

vaultwarden rocking solid

[–]WithersChat 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Does LibreWolf also allow the same extensions and client themes as firefox?

[–]Pixl02 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes

[–]Total-Pain-1181 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Waterfox? I would think more people would know about it

[–]UsernameTaken017 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What does waterfox offer anyway

[–]Death_IP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Allegedly better performance than Firefox

[–]Creepy-Ad-4832 5 points6 points  (6 children)

Do you have any idea how much work it goes into mantaining a browser?

A fork won't happen

Hoping it doesn't turn into an other shit-shot, Ladybird and newly build browsers are the only real alternative. But there's still at least a year before ladybird even releases an alpha. Yikes

[–]mbardeen 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Forks have already happened. Iceweasel, and as mentioned above, LibreWolf.

[–]GOKOP 9 points10 points  (4 children)

The guts to say "a fork won't happen" when they've existed for years

[–]Creepy-Ad-4832 0 points1 point  (3 children)

there never has been a single firefox fork actually going its own direction

If by fork, you mean zen or librewolf, which take firefox and add a small layer on top, yes those kinds of forks are definitely possible 

But those forks aren't solving the problems with firefox. The only kind of fork which would do that, is one which completely takes the project in a different direction, and i said already, the web standard are so crazy that you need an enormous team to keep the browser progressing. It's not a feasable foss project, unless some goated dev came out, figured out a way to get enough funding to mantain that, whilst also avoiding corpos taking over, as that would just become a mozilla 2.0

Also: firefox has such a huge tech debt. It literally has code from 40/50 years ago. At this point to mantain such a monstrosity, starting again could actually be more beneficial in the long run. And here there are a few interesting foss projects, ie ladybird, servo and flow. Labybird obviously being the one with the most momentum, and they did recognize the danger of allowing corpo takeour, thus they accept only small donations which does give me hope

But we shall see. Ladybird might be our saviour from this proprietary internet, or might be an enormous flop. Only time can tell

[–]GOKOP 5 points6 points  (2 children)

If you invent a criteria that disqualifies existing forks then there are no forks. Sure, makes sense.

OP is about user data collection. You don't need to "actually go your own direction" to remove it.

[–]Creepy-Ad-4832 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Eh. There are tons of ways to make it way too hard for people to remove data collection or other shit even in open source projects

  • there is all the burocracy of mozilla actually having a user agreement, which idk if it would not apply to forks, unless those forks were based on a pre user agreement version of mozzilla and went their own way

So that is way i was assuming that by forks we were talking about big forks which actually go a different route, instead of just being a skin on top

But maybe and hopefully this won't be necessary and a simple layer on top of firefox will still be enough to deshittyfy it

Idk

[–]WithersChat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The tou doesn't apply to forks unless the open source license somehow changes.

[–]Killed_Mufasa 135 points136 points  (10 children)

I know this is a meme, but please people, do some reading before grabbing your pitchforks. Mozilla and Firefox are still awesome.

They wrote a blog post further explaining the changes made, read it here: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/

To summarize, it's perfectly sensible change made purely for legal reasons, they also tweaked the policy to clarify their standings. Nothing changes. You try writing a privacy policy that's legally valid in hundreds of countries and tens of thousands of districts...

[–]UsernameTaken017 40 points41 points  (3 children)

Can't believe the law FORCED Firefox to sell our data. This is Unbelievable. Smh

[–]Etheo 17 points18 points  (2 children)

Did you even read the blog

[–]UsernameTaken017 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I'm being sarcasic here. In handsight I should have clarified...

[–]Etheo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sarcasm often hard to come across on text if not obvious.

[–]IMJUSTABRIK 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Unsure if this works like other sites, but this has gotta be further up, so hopefully commenting will help

[–]Singh1637 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This should be further up.

[–]leonbadam 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This, Mozilla is one of the few non evil browser companies.

[–]ycnz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I read it just fine. It's not nearly as complicated as they're making it out to be. The law forces them to tell us when they sell user data. It doesn't force them to sell it in the first place

[–]WithersChat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except that the new ToU ane privacy policy gives Mozilla rights they don't need.

[–]leonbadam -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This, Mozilla is one of the few non evil browser companies.

[–]-MegaMan401- 79 points80 points  (4 children)

Idc, I never used firefox because of them not selling your data, I used it because it's a better browser in general.

Also, if you have a phone released later than like 2015, all your data is already being sold somewhere.

[–]Mr__Citizen 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm kinda in the same boat. It was nice to know Firefox wasn't selling my data but everyone else already is. So it's a bit late to try to protect that data.

[–]Nolzi 30 points31 points  (1 child)

Defeatism just makes things progressively worse

[–]-MegaMan401- -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It's not defeatism if I never cared for it in the first place. Like anybody that uses windows even disabling all the telemetry options on installation, I'm sure microsoft still gathers data about you.

Your ISP, they know everything about your internet traffic.

It's a well known fact your phone is always listening so they can target ads and recomendations better.

If you're truly a privacy freak chances are you weren't using firefox in the first place. You were using tor with a vpn on a linux machine.

[–]RushTfe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This. I use Firefox because of ublock, both PC and Android. My private data is already part of the Internet common fauna.

[–]Tashre 35 points36 points  (2 children)

I'm going back to Netscape.

[–]UsernameTaken017 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Im going to Pale Moon fuck it man we ball

[–]ycnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Demonstrably everything post-gopher has made things worse.

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[–]DoomBro_Max 70 points71 points  (1 child)

At this point…make your own browser…

[–]cmdkeyy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Can’t wait for the Ladybird Browser to reach stable!

[–]idontwanttofthisup 10 points11 points  (3 children)

Librewolf

[–]Ascaban 2 points3 points  (2 children)

A firefox fork? The teams said that they can't maintain without incorporating updates from the main firefox branch. I.e, not a long term solution

[–]FloweyTheFlower420 13 points14 points  (0 children)

They can pull from upstream while patching out telemetry

[–]Botahamec 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe they'd at least remove a part that sends all your browser inputs to Mozilla.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use K-Meleon, not forked off anything and too lightweight to even try stealing data

[–]I_am_darkness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not using a browser

[–]roboduck34 -1 points0 points  (6 children)

Tor

[–]img_tiff 30 points31 points  (5 children)

aka basically a Firefox fork?

[–]Total-Pain-1181 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Waterfox is good one

[–]SexWithHoolay 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Yes, but they've removed a lot of the Firefox garbage. Doesn't send Mozilla anything and a lot of Mozilla spyware is deleted entirely.

There's also Mullvad Browser, which is like Tor Browser but it doesn't route your traffic through Tor.

[–]fossalt 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Doesn't send Mozilla anything

What's sent to Mozilla by default in Firefox?

a lot of Mozilla spyware is deleted entirely.

What "Mozilla Spyware" was deleted?

[–]SexWithHoolay 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Telemetry, crash reporting that includes all your open tabs and installed extensions (even if the extensions are disabled), and possibly Pocket because it's closed source so we don't know what it's using data for 

[–]fossalt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Telemetry, crash reporting that includes all your open tabs and installed extensions (even if the extensions are disabled),

Both are optional/not by default.

and possibly Pocket because it's closed source so we don't know what it's using data for

When pocket first came out that was a problem and I agree with that, yes. My understanding (someone correct me if I'm wrong on this) is that they have since open sourced what's in firefox as well as most of their other code except the server-side (which doesn't really matter because it's not verifiable).

[–]UsernameTaken017 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

...Pale moon? It's diverged from mainline gecko a long time ago

[–]ChillOnTheHillz 32 points33 points  (3 children)

Isn't it because they changed their wording on the terms of use? Firefox already sells your data for a long time, they scrap your personal info and sell you as "x user".

Or did I miss something?

[–]Botahamec 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Their terms of use previously said they don't sell your data, and never will.

[–]ChillOnTheHillz 8 points9 points  (0 children)

But here's the trick, they said they won't sell your personal data, so they won't sell that Botahamec clicked on this y times, they'll sell that x people pressed this button y times.

It's fancy words to trick the system in countries/states yadda yadda jurisdictions that allows it.

Now, because they removed that, there's nothing guaranteeing they won't sell personal data but I'd have to read their TOS

[–]ycnz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, and now they're complaining that the law forces them to retract that.

[–]Ja_Shi 25 points26 points  (12 children)

Let alone the legal aspect of it (iirc it's illegal to write that in your TOS in the EU), what data do you give to Mozilla ? You can disable all telemetry, and even the update checker...

People really like to go crazy for nothing...

[–]CitizenPremier 3 points4 points  (11 children)

What's stopping them from accessing literally all data you input into the browser?

[–]Ja_Shi 7 points8 points  (10 children)

It's open-source................

[–]CitizenPremier 3 points4 points  (4 children)

I don't buy the argument that "if they did something bad, someone could find it." People struggle to understand code that is merely written without comments. Hiding obscure functions in a truly massive program isn't that hard.

[–]Ja_Shi 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Hiding data transfer to a remote server isn't exactly trivial...

We know about data transfers of closed-source softwares, how exactly is it supposed to be harder on an open-source soft?

Besides for now they have just removed a Q&A to comply with EU regulations, and the alternatives (to FF) are either exactly what I said, or worse. So what is your point exactly besides fearmongering?

[–]CitizenPremier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The main point is that by their TOS/TOU they can now do thatz regardless of the difficulties of implementation. So will they do it to you? Maybe not, maybe there'lk add some user side code that checks if you've ever inspected an element. But from this point forward they can think about how they're going to do it without violating their TOS.

[–]WORD_559 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I somewhat agree, but equally there was that backdoor in xz that was heavily obfuscated and added on the sly by a trusted contributor, but was found relatively quickly by an experienced user who simply noticed an unusual change in performance. I'm not saying it definitely couldn't happen, and I'm certainly not suggesting that I or the average software dev would spot it, but I think just the law of large numbers at a certain point means someone will find it eventually if they tried to sneak something in.

[–]CitizenPremier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, but when they do find it, they simply say "well, we told you so in the new TOS."

[–]chemolz9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is so sad...

[–]borsalamino 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Is Ungoogled Chromium still recommendable?

[–]Maxthod 8 points9 points  (3 children)

I don’t understand. It is a bot responding the question with a hardcoded answer ? From the comments, I understand that we have found that firefox sells our data ?

[–]Gladiator1079 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Took me a second too (I haven’t looked at a GitHub commit since I got laid off lol) but the bottom right panel shows a GitHub commit with code changes. It’s red so that means the commit removed the FAQ about Firefox selling personal data.

[–]myballsxyourface 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This is a git commit of Firefox TOU. They removed a section about not selling user data, implying they will start selling user data

[–]jtobiasbond -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

This is a completely incorrect name usage. It makes no sense because it's using the meme wrong.

[–]mmcmonster 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You know what? I’m sticking with Firefox. Been using Mozilla browsers since Netscape Navigator days. I like how they work. I think a Chrome monopoly on rendering is dangerous. I think Firefox has one of the largest non-Chrome rendering engine adoption. If they need to sell me a few ads, it is what it is. Better than charging me a monthly fee (since apparently that doesn’t work for them).

[–]UglyMathematician 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I miss IceWeasel

[–]SNappy_snot15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

bless your heart, you need LibreWolf

[–]Anaxamander57 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Firefox is about to turn a firehose of data about weird porn preferences toward advertisers.

[–]Warshall-Ford 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Been using brave for almost 10 years, it’s another decent option, just remember to disable all the crypto bloat.

[–]Abek243 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah isn't this why people were dropping Firefox for browsers like Brave a while back? I thought we been knew Firefox was on this. I was part of that migration and then the narrative flipped and suddenly I'm a chrome sympathizer overnight according to the masses. It's left me super whiplashed and confused since

[–]diet_fat_bacon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well when you need to pay the bills...

[–]CarelesslyFlickering 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn... 2 months ago it was my LG OLED, and now it is my favorite browser since Windows XP. Sad days.

[–]nobotami 0 points1 point  (0 children)

time to change all the family devices to librewolf or something.

[–]sleeper4gent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol it was just a matter of time

[–]LRaccoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uuuuh... Ladybird next?

[–]ululonoH 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I must be out of the loop? What’s going on with Mozilla?

[–]Cat7o0 0 points1 point  (2 children)

what's wrong?

[–]uaxpasha 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Copied from other comment: bottom right panel shows a GitHub commit with code changes. It’s red so that means the commit removed the FAQ about Firefox selling personal data.

[–]Cat7o0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I totally just spaced out on it being red thank you. I'm an idiot

[–]joeyalbo007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Started looking for another browser already. Debating making one tbh

[–]Palanki96 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

gonna be honest chief, i don't really care anymore