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I like to think of it like this: Now that solar panels have been shown increase the risk of people falling off rooftops, is coal the only option?
(Solar disaster: 100,000 litres of sun rays leaked out of photovoltaic system)
The rhetoric around Firefox is so exhausting. They change some wording while having made no actual technical changes to the browser and the internet is on fire for days calling them the devil incarnate, meanwhile Chrome gutted uBlock and other extensions a week ago and there was barely any noise about it. What causes this phenomenon where the project with significantly less resources is held to a higher standard than…
I will never understand why people attack Firefox so eagerly at every given opportunity.
[0]: https://circuitbulletin.com/what-is-global-privacy-control-t... [1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/global-privacy-control
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Well, no one (sane) has any illusions left about chrome. But FF was supposed to remain the shiny counterexample (despite acting also shady since years).
OP's premise is that "Firefox is gone" and "Chrome is the only option". That suggests Chrome is better than current Firefox. Personally, even though my trust in Firefox (and especially Mozilla) has been eroding rapidly in recent years, it's still so much greater than what I have for Google and Chrome that it's not even a choice. Therefore, I agree with GP that this rhetoric is exhausting. Bringing up the issues with…
To be fair, OP asked if "Chrome-ish" is the only option, i.e. Chromium-based browsers - not Chrome itself.
Even so, I don't think the implication is that Chromium is better than Firefox, but that without Firefox only Chromium-based browsers remain. "If I don't want to use Firefox, is it really only Chrome-clones available?"
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Well, no one (sane) has any illusions left about chrome. But FF was supposed to remain the shiny counterexample (despite acting also shady since years).
OP's premise is that "Firefox is gone" and "Chrome is the only option". That suggests Chrome is better than current Firefox. Personally, even though my trust in Firefox (and especially Mozilla) has been eroding rapidly in recent years, it's still so much greater than what I have for Google and Chrome that it's not even a choice. Therefore, I agree with GP that this rhetoric is exhausting. Bringing up the issues with…
You can trust or distrust whoever you want, but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss Firefox. They now have updated the wording of their TOS that caused so much uproar and confusion (in part fueled by Brendan Eich, who runs a competing browser) and are pretty clear about what they do. Firefox also still supports Manifest V2, which lets you use the full, ultra-powerful version of uBlock Origin. There's no better privacy…
You may have missed Mozilla's update: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms... , discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213612 I don't think trust in Firefox should be gone.
If anything, it's worse, in that they EXPLICITLY admit that they are getting kickbacks—“'monetary' or 'other valuable consideration'”—for providing your user information.