Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions (support.mozilla.org)

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[-] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

Vivaldi, Brave, and their stans are getting their pitchforks ready, forgetting that they don’t have to do the hard work of developing an engine because Google already does that for them.

I don't know about how Vivaldi works, but Brave stans can shut up. Their ad system is a hundred times worse than Mozilla's.

I mean, I don't like how they went about this either, but considering the alternative of a 100% Google dominated browser space, and the fact that you can just disable it and the base Firefox code is still open source, it's not a huge deal.

[-] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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[-] Cloak@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago

I rarely use closed source software. My exceptions are

Windows
- Because I need to run
  - Photoshop
DuckDuckGo (actually good FOSS search engine when?)
Vivaldi

Vivaldi just works so wonderful. Once you use it you can't go back (Check out the in browser mail client). I really wish they were FOSS though.

[-] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Vivaldi just works so wonderful. Once you use it you can’t go back (Check out the in browser mail client). I really wish they were FOSS though.

It doesn't matter to me how much better Vivaldi works over Firefox or even Base Chromium. TBH, this is just something I'm willing to sacrifice in the name of FLOSS. iPhones and Macs are amazingly user friendly too, but I still avoid them like the plague because of Apple's absolute hatred of FLOSS and especially Right to Repair.

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