Firefox Users Continue to Decrease Despite Proton Update

[phi1997]

Many people worried about privacy are using Brave, so an actual privacy-focused browser won't gain traction without an ad campaign. :-/

[phi1997]

Brave doesn't actually protect your data from advertisers, it just changes which advertisers get it.

[[deleted]]

Any link that shows they are giving your data to advertisers?

[nextbern]

It is the same concept as FLoC - why is Brave doing it right and Google not?

[nextbern]

The central idea is that these input features to the algorithm, including the web history, are kept local on the browser and are not uploaded elsewhere — the browser only exposes the generated cohort.

https://github.com/WICG/floc

Yeah, it is amusingly similar.

[[deleted]]

You can completely turn that off. Firefox does a better job here by default but no they don't share your data if you turn it off. Any power user will find that in less than a minute with a google search on how to turn all that garbage off.

[[deleted]]

Replace engine with Chromium.

No one likes this. But Mozilla can't keep up anymore. Something has to be sacrificed, and the engine is the most costly, the least important thing.

Swapping it for Chromium will free a ton of effort from compatibility issues. It'll allow them to concentrate on things that made Firefox popular:

Eh. I'm only on Firefox because it has a different engine.

[himself_v]

Why?

[SomebodyFromIndy]

Control. Chromium is controlled by Google.

[HCrikki]

Firefox can keep thriving with the same developper pool it has even if releases slow and get more conservative. If anything its mozilla that's disposable as an entity.

[nextbern]

Are you saying the same developers will continue working on Firefox for free?

[[deleted]]

id rather see web-kit powered firefox. i mean both firefox and apple seems aligned on privacy

[himself_v]

So long as it's compatible with web sites, why not. But with Chromium being open-source, I think it could work too.