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Mozilla needs to fork Chromium and Android and fix this privacy nightmare. Or EU should grand couple of billions to someone to do it. Privacy should be number

Mozilla needs to fork Chromium and Android and fix this privacy nightmare. Or EU should grand couple of billions to someone to do it. Privacy should be number one feature for every OS, and every browser. Either that or we need laws to ban location access and web tracking altogether.

perceptronas 7y ago
The last thing I want my tax money to go to: develop android/chromium fork. If some company is collecting data they don't require - they are already breaking the law
coribuci 7y ago
> Mozilla needs to fork Chromium and Android and fix this privacy nightmare. Mozilla is chromium and it is already a privacy nightmare. The only hope is in seamonkey or brave
Wowfunhappy 7y ago
Why should they fork Chromium when they already have a highly capable browser engine? I"m really glad that Firefox is (barely!) holding back a full-on Chromium/Webkit monoculture.
- EastSmith 7y ago
  "Mozilla makes browsers, apps, code and tools that put people before profit." - people are using Chromium, Firefox usage is dropping, so Mozilla should do the right thing - fork and de-google Chromium and save the web. Also, I am donating each year real money to Mozilla, without using its browser. Call it FUD, call it I don't know what, but on desktop I am using Chrome, with the usual ad-blocking plugins, on Mobile I am using Brave.
wongarsu 7y ago
There are many attempts to fork Android, some by big companies (Amazon still sells Fire devices with their Android fork I think?) Bottom line is that Android without Google Play services and Google Play Store doesn't work well: most apps are only on Google's store and use Google specific APIs all over the place (after all they are treated mostly like normal Android APIs). And of course Google doesn't let you ship those in an Android fork.

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Mozilla needs to fork Chromium and Android and fix this privacy nightmare. Or EU should grand couple of billions to someone to do it. Privacy should be number

by EastSmith 7y ago

perceptronas 7y ago
The last thing I want my tax money to go to: develop android/chromium fork. If some company is collecting data they don't require - they are already breaking the law
coribuci 7y ago
> Mozilla needs to fork Chromium and Android and fix this privacy nightmare. Mozilla is chromium and it is already a privacy nightmare. The only hope is in seamonkey or brave
Wowfunhappy 7y ago
Why should they fork Chromium when they already have a highly capable browser engine? I"m really glad that Firefox is (barely!) holding back a full-on Chromium/Webkit monoculture.
- EastSmith 7y ago
  "Mozilla makes browsers, apps, code and tools that put people before profit." - people are using Chromium, Firefox usage is dropping, so Mozilla should do the right thing - fork and de-google Chromium and save the web. Also, I am donating each year real money to Mozilla, without using its browser. Call it FUD, call it I don't know what, but on desktop I am using Chrome, with the usual ad-blocking plugins, on Mobile I am using Brave.
wongarsu 7y ago
There are many attempts to fork Android, some by big companies (Amazon still sells Fire devices with their Android fork I think?) Bottom line is that Android without Google Play services and Google Play Store doesn't work well: most apps are only on Google's store and use Google specific APIs all over the place (after all they are treated mostly like normal Android APIs). And of course Google doesn't let you ship those in an Android fork.