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Firefox my beloved.
At least link the full article and not just the headline... smh. Here is also the follow-up article with comments from Firefox's CTO. https://www.heise.de/en/news/Firefox-defends-itself-Everything-done-right-just-poorly-communicated-9802546.html
You're overreacting. Firefox knows their users. I am a huge "stan" for Firefox, but I will delete it like a time traveller if they make it impossible to ignore ads. I will salt the earth and poop on Firefox's grave and actively avoid it everywhere... However. If I'm wrong, there will be a Next Thing...
Yeah I'm using Fennec, which doesn't have that. But as long as it's a flick of a switch to disable, I don't really mind. Still a million times better than manifest v3.
Not entirely true.
Librewolf, my beloved.
This is the first I've heard of LibreWolf. Is it compatible with Windows 7? And also, why is it good?
You really shouldn't connect windows 7 to the internet.
Looks like it should run on Windows.
Edit: sorry, didn't read far down enough. It's only built for Windows 10, but they recommend this?
Picture this in your minds eye: a Windows 7 machine running a browser with still working Flash and Java plugins, connected to the internet in 2024.
what do you see?
i see a flourishing ecosystem of worms, viruses and rootkits, all trying to be the one species to get to be the one who does the most damage to the prey species, the common user.
Sounds like an interesting experience to me. Admittedly I hadn't looked that far into it. If Win 7 is a must I'd say just go with latest Firefox.
If you use a DNS solutions you can block all the telemetry shit. Frankly FF has been phoning home in a lot of undesirable ways for many years even before this, like most browsers.
Firefox is no longer an adversary to Google for the browser market, if it ever was. FF has become a vassal of Google that with its tyranny is dictating the course of the internet, such as WEI that as far as I know it was abandoned at least for now.
Yeah I know. https://blog.windscribe.com/windscribe-expose-mozilla/
Saying this about any corporation's product is guaranteed not to age well.
Mmm mmm mmm, Bill Cosby tells me to love my puddin' pops!
........i feel sleepy......
Yeah, it's strange just how readily the blinders go up wherever Mozilla is concerned. They're a corp, just like any other; if they had the money and leverage, they'd be just as aggressive as Google. Have people already forgotten that time they laid off 200+ employees and then gave all the execs bonuses?
E: Apparently y'all have forgotten. In 2021, Mozilla laid off a few hundred employees. CEO's salary doubled that year. Fuck Mozilla, they're no more your friends than Google or Microsoft; they're the same evil, just smaller-scaled evil, is all.
But they haven't threatened to undercut ad blocking yet, so as a comparison they are better.
Absolutely, but Mozilla is pretty much owned by Google anyway, and falling in love with these companies as wide eyed fanboys never looks good when they eventually turn.
I wouldn't say "owned", but the rest... yeah:-(
Who provides the majority of their funding?
It's okay to like them while they do good and then change your mind when they turn evil.
You forgot to also mention that they are a cult where you get attacked if you say anything negative about Mozilla.
You forgot to not shill for an actual corporation
I'm not shilling for anyone. If you want to discuss actual technical details I'm happy to do so. If you're here just to share your feelings absent facts then I don't care what you have to say.
"this is way safer for users" may as well be feelings. It's not backed up by anything but a clear boner for Google
It is literally explained in the first part of the uBOL GitHub page:
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home#description
It's like you haven't even done the most basic research that anyone with anything useful to say would do. Why?