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No, this was built with money from an grant from Mozilla.
No what? That doesn't contradict their comment about Thunderbird.
I think "No, this was not funded by donations".
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Re: Mozilla Thunderbolt
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Orion on iOS is also a Safari skin and supports extensions
And Brave on iOS has blocking built in to the browser itself instead of like Firefox on Android where you have to trust a 3rd party dev.
LMFAO. Brave uses uBO's lists and filters, including trusted filters which have much more capabilities with much more risks to your sites' data and they allow that on all other lists too (even uBO only allows their own lists as trusted by default, other lists need to have permissions from users manually). That's how they can block youtube ads, and no they don't code their own filters for youtube ads either. And be assure that they can't check 100% all commits from uBO and other lists either.
If you want to play "no trust to a 3rd party dev", you should not use Brave's adblocker either. Or at least turn off all the lists inside it, and use your own lists. Your security risk is in those stock lists.
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How would Mozilla replace the $500M a year from Google to not be a business?
Myself and I believe many others are willing to put money where our mouths are for an organization leading by example with regards to stewardship, much as this org has done in the past prior, instead of all these continued distractions, and ESPECIALLY if they stop swallowing this poisonous "donation" from Google. The fact that they do makes me wary of sending them a single penny. They'll just keep doing shit like the…
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There are plenty ways to fund digital commons, including people volunteering their time.
A leading web browser can not be built and maintained by volunteers.
I don’t know, but there are other ways of funding besides -completely- volunteer run.
Take look at Ladybird
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladybird_(web_browser)?wprov=s...
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" Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. " " Please don't fulminate. " " Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Hi, I'm on team that worked on this. No it's not vibe coded. We do pretty intense code review of every PR. It looks like the number you're seeing is including lock files and artifacts that are not part of the core coverage.
Fair enough if it’s not vibe coded, I’ll take your word for it. Code review seems like it’s mostly bots (Claude, Cursor, Greptile) from the PRs I looked at? Nevertheless, AI use is not what really stood out to me. It’s that it’s SO MUCH CODE. I have no idea how you guys maintain or reason about the quality or security of something like this. Good luck, I guess.
Ah yeah, after accusing others that they vibe-code without proofs, no apology and steering the accusations to other things?
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Are they allowed to reuse Thunderbolt when it's already taken in the same industry?
They have enough money for a legal dept. so I imagine so. But it's a confusing choice IMO. Not just because thunderbolt but also because thunderbird as someone else pointed out. But maybe they are trying to make thunder their 'thing', like apple puts an 'i' in front of everything? Coming soon the browser rebrand to Thunderfox! :)
Very happy to update to Thunderfox.
Re: Mozilla Thunderbolt
#288The name is strange. They had a fox and a bird, used fire and thunder. The logical next would be Earthworm or watervole.
Re: Mozilla Thunderbolt
#289oh mozilla, why don't you just focus on Firefox. That is all we want.
For a lot of things, I'm glad they don't. A strict focus on just a web browser years ago would mean we never get rust for instance.
Re: Mozilla Thunderbolt
#290Curious name choice, that's clearly encumbered by other trademarks. Also, my impression is: yay another AI front-end. What does this one differently that the other thirteen in a dozen don't?
> What does this one differently that the other thirteen in a dozen don't? Mozilla's a lot more trustworthy with privacy and data, and they're unlikely to sell the project to someone who only wants to stuff it full of malware/adware/crypto stuff - or do it themselves.
Yeah. Mozilla openly state that they DO sell your data.