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I appreciate it when my browser takes the position that it acts as the user's agent, and not the advertising network's agent.
by GeekyBear 8y ago
I appreciate it when my browser takes the position that it acts as the user's agent, and not the advertising network's agent.
- bloopernova 8y agoThis attitude from the Mozilla crew has convinced me to try switching from Chrome for a week. (I understand that these latest features aren't yet available in the normal releases)
- CedarMills 8y agoI switched completely to Firefox on my work computer. Don't miss Chrome at all.
- Daniel_sk 8y agoMe too. I am absolutely happy with Firefox after switching about 6 months ago. I don’t miss anything.
- kevingadd 8y agoI think current Firefox has audio/video autoplay controls, and in my experience they're wonderful compared to Chrome's. A one-time popup that lets you easily control it per-site. Already enough to make me prefer it.
- hanniabu 8y agoThoughts on Brave browser?
- roca 8y agoBrave's good but since it's a wrapper around Chromium, you're still supporting Google control over the Web.
- sneak 8y agoThis sort of reasoning is fallacious. Use of Chrome’s renderer is not specifically advantageous to Google until/unless they attempt to leverage it to break web standards, which is not their general policy (Widevine concessions to content creators notwithstanding), just as use of WebKit is not specifically advantageous to Apple, nor is Node’s use of v8, et c. Fact is, Brave is, as I understand it, a system that intends to pay a user to see ads (via replacement) - although they may have pivoted (again?) away from that. It’s not an anti-tracking or anti-advertising effort.
- jonathanyc 8y agoExcept Google already ships bugs in their products to non-Chromium browsers (see YouTube, Google Docs, etc.) By using a Chromium-based browser you facilitate this anticompetitive behavior.
- mxuribe 8y agoI recently switched from chrome being my daily browser to firefox...and the only thing that firefox is not great at is "save to pdf" (I would add some other minor printing aspects, but honestly i don't print much of anything anymore from a browser - so no impact for me). Besides "save to pdf"/printing, i have no use/need for going back to chrome. I encourage you to try out firefox and see if you have an equally positive experience.
- theseatoms 8y agoImagine how powerful a paid browser could become on this front. As people slowly become more privacy-aware this might be feasible.
- dahfizz 8y agoI have a hard time believing a paid browser would ever get big. People just do not care enough.
- packet_nerd 8y agoI care and would pay. Same with websites. especially if the experience was easy, scalable, and protected my privacy and anonymity.
- Aeolun 8y agoIf Jetbrains were to build a browser on top of firefox with a similar level of features to their IDE’s, I would absolutely pay for that. Developer tools is already invaluable, but there’s no reason it cannot be better.
- sroussey 8y agoVery few people pay/donate, and very few did for Firebug back in the day.
- pluma 8y agoOpera started as a paid browser and nearly went bankrupt. They even had ads on the free version. Barely anyone paid for it and the ads killed adoption. Heck, even Netscape Navigator started out as shareware. It was "personal use only" but most commercial users never bought a license. It was eventually defeated by Microsoft Internet Explorer, which was free for commercial use even before it shipped with the OS. If there is any chance someone will attempt a paid browser again, it will most definitely be based on Chromium (or maybe Firefox) rather than written from scratch and no website will make any effort to test on it (just like barely anyone ever tested on Opera).
- 8y ago