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Mozilla wants you to love Firefox again (www.fastcompany.com)

submitted 3 months ago by gytrash@feddit.uk to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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"Last month, Mozilla made a quiet change in Firefox that caused some diehard users to revolt..."

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 121 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I am doubly pissed off:

Mozilla opts me into an analytics scheme without requiring my permission. That's bad.
Mozilla partners with fucking FACEBOOK to spring this shit on me? Now THAT takes the cake!

But... I would be pissed off if I used straight Firefox, and I don't: I use LibreWolf, and I have no doubt they'll strip this latest round of Mozilla nonsense from the LibreWolf browser.

I don't know... I have a love/hate relationship with Mozilla: on the one hand, they're pretty much the only thing that stands between the final overrun of the web by the Google monoculture and still having some kind of a choice what you use to hit the internet, and they make one of the only email clients worth its salt in Linux. On the other hand, every time they decide to do something, it's always a screw-up, and it's been like that for decades. Surely in their position, they should know what not to do to piss off everybody all the time, and yet... What a weird bunch.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

LibreWolf is great as long as they're able to pull out malicious advertising.

I hope some of the completely independent projects start taking off. Chrome is cancer. Manifest V3 is metastasized cancer. Mozilla is basically taking up smoking.

I miss the days when we had functioning software without telemetry whenever we wiggle a mouse and ads in every corner.

[–] myliltoehurts@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

I like to think the behind the scenes is just a decades long game of dare in Mozilla's leadership that slowly got out of control but they've all gotten too deep in it now to give up and just call it a tie.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

I've been mostly using Mullvad, and so far it worked pretty well out of the box. Few sites break, and for that I have LibreWolf, but other than that, I'm enjoying Mullvad more.