• no banana@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They’re doing what they think they need to justify their existence, and although I personally believe being just a great browser would be enough I appreciate their communication around their ventures. It’s not great, but it’s not like they’re installing malware in the background.

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      1 year ago

      And may I point out that just being a great browser hasn’t worked out so well for Firefox so far. Unfortunately in today’s day and age you have to promote yourself to stand out. Chrome is an abject piece of crap that actively spies on you and yet Google’s PR has managed to convince the vast majority to use it.

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        1 year ago

        It’s also worth noting that Chrome’s security model is much more robust than Firefox’s. Acting like Firefox is superior in every regard only serves to undercut Mozilla’s pleas for more contributors and funding.

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      1 year ago

      https://itsfoss.com/firefox-looking-glass-controversy/

      They get pretty close sometimes. I respect their mojo, but I don’t install vanilla Firefox anymore. On anything. For any reason. I don’t trust them anymore.

      I wish them the best, if I could donate directly to Firefox development I would, but it’s impossible with them. So I don’t. I donate to mullvad, I donate to the Tor project, and I donate to servo. That’s what I can do to make sure we maintain an open and free web

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          1 year ago

          That’s a great point. I totally thought they were non-profit. They’re just so on brand with my personal ethos I just assumed.

          But yeah checking they’re not. Totally wrong about that. Thanks for pointing it out

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          1 year ago

          This is an old issue, I was just linking to it to reference why I have friendly relations with Firefox but I doubt they’re intentions, or at least I consider them an ally but one that needs to be double checked.

          The date on that post is clearly wrong. Maybe they got some weird content management system that’s updating the date and correctly or they made an edit or something