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Google Chrome now targets ads based on your browser history, here's how to turn that off (www.techspot.com)

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[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Bad advice. Donations to Mozilla go to the Foundation to fulfill it's 'mission', whatever it is, whereas FF development is done by Mozilla Corp. which can't legally take donations. Don't waste your money.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I think you’re over thinking it. The foundation owns the corporation. The foundation has 10 principles. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Manifesto

If you agree with them, consider donating.

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not overthinking. It is what it is. You can't donate directly to impulse FF development. But you may buy subscriptions to Pocket/Relay or Mozilla VPN.

That said, I frankly don't know what Mozilla is up these days, nor I am interested in their survival. As far as I am concerned, they could disappear today and my life wouldn't change a single bit. I'd prefer to donate money to really useful ORGs on the likes of archive, wikipedia, OSM, Arch Linux, EFF and so on. Today's Mozilla is just a cash-grab mismanaged scam.

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla

[-] mattreb@feddit.it 6 points 1 year ago

I get it about the corporation issues but do you even dislike firefox? Do you think it would be positive to have one less alternative to chrome? What browser do you use?

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, I dislike it.
I have been using FF for almost 20 years. Left it in 2021. The crappy redesign has been the last straw for me, after few years of seriuos UX/UI decline. And no, I'm not going to waste my time unfucking it using about:config or CSS.
I use Brave and pretty like it. I don't care what people may think of it or its CEO. It's a fine browser and the community is way less toxic than Mozilla's one. I'll keep using it.
I don't care (anymore) if Firefox lives or die (it's doomed anyway, thanks to Mozilla).

[-] clubb@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

You, sir have no idea how lazy you are. You are helping Google. Firefox is the only mainstream alternative that isn't just chromium.

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