I am specifically waiting for this to happen so I can be part of the flood to Firefox when they finally throw the switch.
Why wait?
Also, Brave browser exists for those who are particularly attached to chromium.
I'm not touching brave with a 10 ft pole but thanks for your advertisement
I'm just learning about what all the fuss around Brave is. But I'd be interested to hear how Google seems to be the ethical choice for a daily driver browser currently. It's obviously fine to not want to use Brave, but how is it the inferior choice when compared to Chrome (or even considered a sidegrade)? Even with all the issues mentioned I'd still recommend it as the lesser of the 2 evils compared to Chrome.
No one is saying Chrome is the ethical choice, why are you reducing this to a 2 options choice?
Lemmy always seems to hate Brave but no one ever says why
Why people always forget the simple:
Switching Google to Brave is not an upgrade is a sidegrade.
I don't know, I've seen answers to this so many times on Lemmy.
I've seen this answered so many times it'd make your head spin, looney-toons style. If you don't know then you haven't been paying any attention.
brave is literally just chromium, it solves none of the fundamental problems other than being like, reasonably well built.
It's chrome, but if it didnt't try and kill you ever update. That's the difference.
While introducing opt-out tracking where you data is sent to advertisers. Get LibreWolf instead.
Or just set the few relevant settings manually, if you need nightly/dev edition.
Until the next dumb shit Mozilla does without telling its users.
Except I've heard about every change from here. And as I read the nightly changelogs, it's not that hidden actually.
Yes, you're the exception, not the rule.
If you need to use nightly, you're already the exception to the rule. That means you need to read the changelogs.
Oh I didn't know this fork, thanks!
I’m really hoping Google’s antitrust case doesn’t kill Mozilla. Over 85% of Mozilla’s cash flow is dependent on Google paying for that search box.
If Mozilla stopped paying his CEO millions of dollars... and if they actually financed development with people donations...
We don't know what they pay their new CEO.
I don't think google wants to get hit with another antitrust lawsuit for web browsing, so I am sure they will figure out some other deal to funnel money to Firefox
Good point. Could be like MS and Apple in the late 90’s. When Apple was on death’s door, Gates invested in Apple so MS would have faux competition for regulators.
Mozilla's slowly creeping in the surveillance with adding integrated crap like Pocket and AI driven Fake Spot. I'm really glad Librewolf's made a privacy focused fork of their browser without all that nonsense.
Related announcement: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution
TLDR: Mozilla wants your data and it's opt out. If you're on FF 128 it's already on and you will have to turn it off manually. Shame how they have fallen this low. The LEAST they could have done is show a pop up announcement when the user upgraded to 128.
Also: +1 to Librewolf. Mozilla is definitely going to try more scummy crap like this in the future. Definitely the better option over Firefox.
Can't wait for ladybird to come out! Finally something that speaks our language.
I really hope there's a significant rise in Firefox -and derivatives- usage share. It will be good for everyone, even those stuck on Chromium browsers.
And in the meantime Mozilla keeps making worse decisions, too
Enshitification of all the things.
Someone who gives a damn needs to be in charge of mozilla but i dont see that happening.
Mozilla is about to collapse due to the Google antitrust ruling though.
Mozilla and its murder/suicide pact with Google falling apart may be the best thing that could possibly happen to Firefox.
"And then Mozilla management comes in from the top rope with the chair"
Seriously, for profit companies should not own open source projects.
That for-profit company is owned by a non-profit. They don't have shareholders to which they could pay out the profits.
Manifest v3 was why I switched to FF a while ago - it was going to only be a matter of time even with the delays so I figured I should switch early. I still like how chrome looks a lot more and wish we had tab grouping, but google can take uBO from my cold, dead hands.
Pihole for the win
That's not the same. DNS blocking is great but it can't block as well as a proper ad blocker.
