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by KennyBlanken 747 days ago
Starting? Remember the time they silently installed an extension written for a TV network?

The project manager for it used to work in the advertising industry. When the ticket was filed in Bugzilla, she quickly set it to be private to try and hide it. Another mozilla employee put it back to public, and then the ticket was set such that not even employees could see it by Mozilla executive leadership.

How about them ramming Pocket down everyone's throats?

Or the 2022 "partnership" with Facebook over an advertising a "privacy preserving" advertising standard?

How about the CEO's astronomical pay increases while market share sank? How about the fact that they now have a billion dollars in assets, half of that in cash? And they slashed their software development budget a year or two ago? And paid someone ~350,000+ to write an "AI and racial justice" report?

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-invest...

And then there's the partnership with an identity protection service (why the fuck is a browser company getting involved in that!?) whose CEO was running people-search network sites https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/mozilla-drops-onerep-aft...

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Any alternatives to Firefox worth exploring where users are the customers and you can pay for the product instead of being sold as one?
I have good expirience with Vivaldi. Yes, Chromium based, but very-very customizable, a bit slower than other browser, again because of customizations, but in general it looks like they believe that user know what he/she is doing.
An independent browser engine is top reason I use Firefox. Anything based on Webkit/Blink is just reinforcing the monoculture and further locking out alternatives.
I don't know honestly. I don't like what Mozilla is doing with Firefox, and I'm not sure that we should support it.
Clearly we have different priorities and I've failed to convince you. Which is fine.

Hopefully enough folks do prioritize browser engine diversity, so we aren't stuck with no significant alternative.

> Clearly we have different priorities and I've failed to convince you.

Im not sure that we should support one "not the best" company just because other company definitely worse.

Kagi has their own browser called Orion, their whole business model (including search) is that you pay for it instead of you being sold.

Unfortunately, it's iOS only and based on WebKit.

There's definitely an opportunity here, maybe using Servo as the browser engine.

> it's iOS only

It's available on macOS as well: https://kagi.com/orion/#download_sec

Sorry, should've said Apple only.
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