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I was going to say I will pay a subscription for the best browsing experience you can offer, sans ads.
But this is opt-out. And there's a donation option at https://donate.mozilla.org/. As long as it's opt-out, that's fair enough to me.
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> RELEVANT suggestions The fuck with this? How can they make _relevant_ suggestions without spying on my (s/browsing history/activity/), profiling it and phoning back to the mothership? (Edited, "browsing history" -> "activity")
The trick is, you can't, unfortunately. You can have relevant ads that encroach on your privacy, or you can have possibly irrelevant ads that don't. If we are considering all possibilities, they could have precomputed some magic to do it all locally, but I have doubts about that because it seems more difficult to do that than just slap an identifier on your keystrokes and consult their ad-partner API.
Can someone please just offer an open source browser that I can pay towards somehow? IMO adtech is the root of all that’s wrong with the modern internet. It gives companies 2 masters: advertisers and users. Guess who’s prioritized when there’s a conflict between the needs of the two? Whoever’s paying the bills, of course.
The major downside is that web extensions (addons) don't work in qutebrowser.
Wut?? You must be referring to the partners that you have, that I trust. But I don't know who your partners are, and I have no reason to trust them.
And how is it that you are privy to what I'm searching for? Is DDG among your partners? I know you're in bed with Goo, but I am migrating away from Google Search, partly because I know you are infected with Google Search addiction.
Please stop adding "features" to Firefox.
At this point I imagine for most people it makes more sense to download Chromium, if you're worried about privacy, or use Chrome if you're not.
Mozilla's been running out of money for a very long time though, this isn't exactly a surprise.
Option 1: FOSS community will actively participate in developing one big web-browser project to free the web from malicious corporate practices and guarantee respect of users freedom.
Option 2: A corporation will create commercial web-browser with fixed price or SaaS model without "partnerships" and data-hoarding business model.
Option 3: There will be only one way to browse the internet: The Google's way.
Option 4: Users will learn to use "text-browsers" with hardened security and move to "standard" web-browser UX only if necessary.
Option 5: P2P local networks will provide a "cached" versions of scraped websites for safety and free access.
Option 6: The Internet will be used only in embedded IOT systems, apps from closed app stores, government approved experiences with mandatory ID verification.
If their CEO salary was not paid in millions dollars maybe the users would be more keen to donate money? I never saw a fundraising like the ones from Wikipedia.
If Wikimedia were managing Firefox you would see the "donation" button in the toolbar that can't be really disabled during the fundrasing season; you can press a small x button, but it will come back as soon as you think it is truly gone. You are severely understating Wikimedia's aggressive campaigns.
It’s sucky and I particularly hate ads percolating to every part if my life, BUT how are they meant to support Firefox and other software without a revenue stream? Mozilla seems to attract criticism for how they run the whole operation, I can’t tell how correct it is, but even if they run it perfectly they still need revenue.
Along with the layoffs and now this unscrupulous decision to bring in revenue to offset the haemorrhage.
Time to go back to a no thrills browser.