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As someone who has used Firefox since v0.* I really, really, really dislike the language they have used lately. > relevant suggestions from our trusted partners The suggestions are not relevant to, and the partners not trusted by, me.
This “Privacy First Data Sharing Platform” for example
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/take-control-over-your-d...
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> Why not just tell it like it is. Indeed. Mozilla should be honest. That's what builds trust. We all know they need money, so if this gives them money to improve FF, fine by me. But they need to quit the marketing bullshit-speak.
They need money to improve FF so they will get it by fucking up FF? Sounds counterproductive to me.
Is it some business school process or management training BS? It usually only happens when "trained" business people get involved that this sort of BS happens.
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Firefox doesn’t need 400 million per year to develop Mozilla has a lot of no value initiatives activities that they want to fund
Exactly that. If they got rid of their hobbies then this sort of scam wouldn't be necessary. Yes, it's a scam: bait and switch.
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.
There's qutebrowser and you can donate directly to the developer but I'm not sure if you'd be comfortable using it. The major downside is that web extensions (addons) don't work in qutebrowser.
Oh I like this. It's subtle in a way that flies under the radar but still blesses someone's little heart effectively.
On a side note: I love qutebrowser, even as someone who doesn't prefer Vim or Vim keybindings in things. I like it because it is slim up top, and does what you tell it to and not a stitch more. If it got paywalled tomorrow, but everything else remained the same and open, I could see paying 10 bucks a month for it.
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Not OP but I've avoided Brave from the beginning because of its reliance on an ad-fueled crypto scam to generate revenue. If you're trying to avoid Mozilla's new ad-based revenue scheme, moving to a browser that is wholly funded by tracking your browsing and showing you ads while pretending to "pay" you with cryptocurrency that they never actually pay out, seems like a step backwards.
Mozilla is woke. It's a failing company and a failing browser.
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> Why not just tell it like it is. Indeed. Mozilla should be honest. That's what builds trust. We all know they need money, so if this gives them money to improve FF, fine by me. But they need to quit the marketing bullshit-speak.
They need money to improve FF so they will get it by fucking up FF? Sounds counterproductive to me.
Whomever they have hired to (1) perform UX research and (2) make executive decisions aren't performing, IMHO.
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Why is a browser expensive ? There are many great and big open source projects out there that are maintained and developed mainly by volunteers. Why can't Firefox be like this?
Building a shell around Chromium or Webkit isn't very expensive. Maintaining an independent, high-quality browser engine so that the design and implementation of the Web isn't up to a Google/Apple duopoly is incredibly expensive: https://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/12/maintaining-independent... (4 years old, but the situation I describe hasn't changed, except that Microsoft has switched to Chromium so Mozilla's engine…
Remember the W3C DRM standard and how Firefox implemented it?
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> We need funding Yeah, I guess Baker needs a raise.
Counterpoint, I’d rather NGOs and benevolent societies be attractive for world-class leaders, rather than be the constant underdog. Of course those CEOs have to avoid implementing classic business schemes.
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Google and Microsoft did much worse and got away with it
Microsoft maybe, they seem to be the tech bubble darling right now. Google is officially "The Evil(tm)" right now.