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> The problem is the sites. no, the problem is that sites can _afford_ to block firefox, because their share is low enough that they can take the hit. What we
by chii 2y ago
> The problem is the sites.
no, the problem is that sites can _afford_ to block firefox, because their share is low enough that they can take the hit.
What we need to do, as tech evangalists, is to push the marketshare of firefox higher, so that they cannot be ignored by sites, due to significant traffic. This is how the open internet can preserve both privacy and control of the computing environment.
if your friends and/or family isn't using firefox (this includes mobile), nag them to switch. If you are a tech support for your extended family, push firefox onto them (and install adblock while you're at it).
If you control a company's IT infrastructure, push firefox as the default browser, over chrome.
The internet is repeating the microsoft IE days with chrome, but without the shittiness that made chrome a possible barrier breaker (chrome is good enough that most people aren't complaining).
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
- Grimblewald 2y agowhy force a shit website to allow us to view it? X is a cess pool of miss-information, over-selling, over-hyping, and generally the worst the internet has to offer. At least 4chan wears its degenerate nature on it's sleeve.
- phailhaus 2y agoNobody's defending X. The point is that it doesn't matter that FF has strict privacy controls if sites can afford to just...not support FF. Its market share will dwindle to zero and privacy will be dead. FWIW it seems like the browser market is shifting away from third party cookies anyways, so I'm not sure this is a huge issue.
- paulmd 2y agoyep this is why cracking open ios was a mistake, especially for the android crowd who’d never be caught dead owning an iPhone anyway. there was barely a slope to begin with, you’ve got chrome in a majority and safari in a minority and then Firefox as a rounding error. Obviously if you crush safari, google is just gonna go mask-off full-manifest-v3 and plenty of other sites would be happy to follow. it was obvious from the start, people were just happy they finally got a legislated “win” to the android/iOS debate. “Don’t be evil” was dead for at least 10 years, and people pay lip service to acknowledging this and then go right on acting like google has their best interests at heart anyway.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoThe trouble here is that we're dealing with a concentrated market and neither Google nor Apple are selfless philanthropists. "We need Apple to protect us from Google" only leaves you wondering who will protect you from Apple. What we need is for both companies to be broken into a dozen or more pieces so none of them has market power in anything anymore.
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- sunaookami 2y agoI agree, browsers should only allow viewing websites which were vetted by the government with approved information.
- EgregiousCube 2y agoNo, the problem is Mozilla. Management has been so bad that Firefox is hard to recommend now. Servo is a great engine but the company behind it isn't earning support and I think it's not going to last. I'll keep using Firefox forks until they don't work, but I won't support Mozilla by using their product directly anymore.
- dgb23 2y agoI thought Mozilla let the Servo team go.
- Qwertious 2y agoServo is long gone. Since August 2020, which will be 4 years next month. They've been independent ever since. https://servo.org https://servo.org
- EgregiousCube 2y agoWow, that’s excellent! I missed the news. Really happy to hear this.