I have considered the owners and maintainers of Firefox to be malicious to the project for quite some time now. This finally cements that theory beyond any reasonable doubt. What should we do about it?
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#23Yeaaaah, no thank you.
> while keeping your privacy in mind.
Doesn't mean it's maintained with reasonable assurance.
Who is even asking for these features? The majority of firefox users I know are very privacy conscious. Is a little address bar feature really going to attract more people to use firefox?
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#24For revenue they should sell naming rights to their release versions like stadium naming rights. The name will also be in the executable "Firefox: vX.X TikTok"
That is non-ironically a pretty good idea.
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#25Safari is the best browser there is right now, hands down.
Why?
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#26Personally, I love ads. I barely notice them. I'll notice that guitars are popping up all over the place if I was just browsing Guitar Center or Sweetwater, but other than that most ads are irrelevant to me anyway. That said, they pay for a lot of things I enjoy. My email account is free. My web browser and search engine are free. To me, anyway. Thanks to all those people who look at and click on ads. Who are those folks, anyway? What are they looking for?
Now, I don't particularly enjoy the idea of being tracked, but I don't really have activity that I wouldn't want a stranger (or a close friend, for that matter) to know about, anyway, and that's intentional.
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#27Safari is the best browser there is right now, hands down.
That stops being true the moment you have to develop for it.
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#28welp, it's been a slice, Firefox. I will never forget the excellent MDN docs and of course the gift of Rust.
I will miss your little furry logo henceforth.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Advertising is fundamentally malicious.
Using stuff for free is also fundamentally malicious.
It is not Mozilla's job to profit off its users. Its job is to provide a browser. They have utterly failed at this job.
I have a fundamental right to see not see the content I do not want to see. I have a fundamental right to not be advertised to. Firefox has violated this right.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What should we do about it? Fork it. But I'm not sure I agree this is malicious. Perhaps annoying and even poorly thought out, but malicious implies they are actively trying to undermine the project, rather than trying to find ways to break the project's dependence on Google but missing the mark.
Fork it, and form a publicly-funded non-profit to continue development for the public good.
Unfortunately Mozilla is already a publicly funded nonprofit.