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Also from Jamie Zawinski yesterday: Mozilla's Original Sin

Some will tell you that Mozilla's worst decision was to accept funding from Google, and that may have been the first domino, but I hold that implementing DRM is what doomed them, as it led to their culture of capitulation. It demonstrated that their decisions were the decisions of a company shipping products, not those of a non-profit devoted to preserving the open web.

Those are different things and are very much in conflict. They picked one. They picked the wrong one.

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[–] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I'm gonna keep using and recommending LibreWolf for the foreseeable future.

But I wonder what other alternative web engines do we have with both Chromium and Gecko being run by advertisers now?

I know Palemoon runs a fork of a really old version of a Gecko and I used it for a bit back when Firefox 58 broke most add-ons. But I'm a bit iffy of it's security these days.

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 1 year ago

At the moment, we have Blink (Chrome), Gecko (Firefox), Webkit (Safari), Servo, Ladybird and Goanna (Pale Moon).

[–] triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

servo is the only one I know of

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish Librewolf disabled DRM

[–] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure they do? Unless you're talking about a different DRM thing.

[–] Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe they mean compiled without it entirely instead of disabled by default, but still available?