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Re: Make Firefox Private Again

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Post by cma »

kilburn wrote: post #31
cma wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google likely pays them to disable about:config on Android or implies they won't pay them as much for default search and they read the tea leaves. https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/firefox-for-android-abo... It only works on the more insecure nightly version of firefox.

This is equivalent to about:config and works on the regular firefox mobile version too: chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml

Didn't work for me just now. When there have been ways in the past the non-nightly version wipes the changes each restart unless they are already exposed in settings I think.

Re: Make Firefox Private Again

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Post by LunaSea »

Dalewyn wrote: post #165
LunaSea wrote: post #149

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Which site from the 90s are you still visiting regularly in it's 90s form?

/.

The same Slashdot that is monetised through advertisement with 500M monthly ad impressions?

Source: https://slashdotmedia.com/advertising-and-marketing-services...

Re: Make Firefox Private Again

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Post by lolinder »

LunaSea wrote: post #158
blueflow wrote: post #150

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What about HN? What about make-firefox-private-again.com? Go through the HN frontpage and the links. Thats why i'm sure you are wrong.

> What about HN? The same HN that is heavily moderated by a paid employee and paid for by a multi-billion dollars net worth company called YCombinator?

Y Combinator will continue to exist in a post-attention-economy world. They have proven themselves to be quite adaptable.

Re: Make Firefox Private Again

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Post by nottorp »

LunaSea wrote: post #162
cassianoleal wrote: post #118

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Agree. Production quality != overall quality. I'd much rather have great content badly produced than professionally produced crap.

Most people still seem to watch Hollywood quality movies so I don't know if your taste is very representative.

High sales != quality. Maybe high sales ~= lowest common denominator?

Re: Make Firefox Private Again

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Post by chucksmash »

sensanaty wrote: post #85
Vinnl wrote: post #40

Here's the Firefox CTO explaining the motivation behind the experiment controlled by this setting, and the measures taken to ensure that it actually is private: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1e43w7v/a_word_abo...

The fact that the disgusting parasitic entity that is Meta is a part of this makes me sick to my stomach. The fact that the Mozilla CTO is supportive of Meta being a part of it? Just unspeakable.

Using overwrought rhetoric doesn't help to make your point.

Re: Make Firefox Private Again

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Post by blackeyeblitzar »

shiroiushi wrote: post #18
blackeyeblitzar wrote: post #10

Really sad to see Firefox’s direction but also not sure how they should be funded to avoid these things. I’m also not sure that the web can be made into something different unless web standards aren’t freed of influence by giants like Google

>Really sad to see Firefox’s direction but also not sure how they should be funded to avoid these things. I'm not sure there is an alternative. It's not just Firefox: other big projects like this already have foundations and lots of money in funding, but then spend the money on things not at all related to the core mission. From what I've read, Mozilla won't even take your money to develop Firefox. They'll instead us…

It’s depressing that anything moderately successful may be doomed to being taken over this way, by people looking to abuse the institution for their own political activism. I wasn’t aware that Wikipedia also had the same issue. Not using donations for the core thing donors think they’re supporting is so deceptive.

Re: Make Firefox Private Again

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Post by marcinzm »

lpcvoid wrote: post #84
cjpearson wrote: post #43

I really don't like advertising. I use uBlock Origin in my browser, AdGuard on my phone and pi-hole in my home. I even take a seam ripper to my clothes to make sure no logos remain. But I understand that advertising is the only viable business model for much of the internet. (Browsing HN and seeing that the top comment for every paywalled article is a pirated link confirms that.) If advertising must exist, I'd prefer…

I personally don't care if 90% of websites which rely on advertising disappear or replace their monetization strategy with gated, paid access. I even think this is a good thing. As such, I will fight the ability of websites to monetize by tracking wherever I can.

That's not the alternative. The alternative is the death of most sites other than walled gardens like Meta and Amazon that own their own advertising end-to-end. Do you want the internet to be even more Meta controlled?

Re: Make Firefox Private Again

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Post by freediver »

SCdF wrote: post #30

I just want to use a robust, secure and decently fast browser that uses a different backend than Chrome to support the open web not ossifying into a single browser spec. I'll pay monthly! Please just let me pay for this in money and not my privacy :-(

If you use macOS/iOS, there is Orion. Webkit based, zero telemetry, lifetime license $150 USD, no other source of funding.

https://kagi.com/orion

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