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I'd say if there's any harm, it would rather be related to money, as in Mozilla has less to bargain for their deals with their sponsors. However, seeing how th
by vladvasiliu 5y ago
I'd say if there's any harm, it would rather be related to money, as in Mozilla has less to bargain for their deals with their sponsors.
However, seeing how these forks are just "cosmetic", they still use the same rendering engine, which doesn't increase Google's relative user base. As far as this monopoly is concerned, all these forks are still Firefox.
- fsflover 5y ago> As far as this monopoly is concerned, all these forks are still Firefox. Not in the website statistics I guess, unless the forks present themselves as Firefox, which I doubt.
- Nextgrid 5y agoTo defend against browser fingerprinting you absolutely want them to present themselves as Firefox.
- fsflover 5y agoWhich forks are actually doing this?
- xanaxagoras 5y agoThe one we're discussing here, LibreWolf. Here's my UA: `User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0` Note that I am on Linux, so your line of thinking has some validity.
- oynqr 5y agoThis one.
- brightly-salty 5y agoLibrewolf does this. It presents itself as Firefox on Windows.