I’ve been seeing a lot of information lately about mozilla, and a lot of questionable claims being made about their “direction.” The bulk of their revenue comes from google, and I have been working very hard to de-google everything I can. I have moved away from drive, gmail, search, etc.

I am using Fedora on all my computers, and am logged into firefox on each of them so I have complete sync with all my devices. Are the posts I am seeing blown out of proportion, or should I be looking for another browser?

Thanks in advance!

  • cerement@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    problem is that there really isn’t much alternative currently:

    • you can switch to a Firefox fork like LibreWolf or Mullvad
      • or Tor Browser and live with no cookies, no saved logins, etc.
    • you can go through trying to maintain Firefox + arkenfox if you want fine grain control
    • you can switch to any of the Chromium forks which puts you back at the starting point
      • and then you have to deal with lack of ad-blocking once Manifest V3 goes mainstream
    • there’s a huge pile of smaller, independent, or specialty browsers out there
      • but ad-blocking is hit-or-miss and plugin support is often non-existent
    • hold out hope for one of the up-and-comers
      • Servo – just the engine at this point, who knows how long until a full browser is ready
      • Ladybird – if you want to be associated with the “problematic” opinions of the developers …