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I've use Firefox as my tertiary browser option, for some specific uses like for example I have it always have an VPN plugin on. But I'm starting to feel anythin
by maxlin 2y ago
I've use Firefox as my tertiary browser option, for some specific uses like for example I have it always have an VPN plugin on. But I'm starting to feel anything in its vicinity should be avoided like hostile malware, regardless if an attempt to remove bad parts of it is made.
A corporation can do a lot of bad stuff with their software and terms, and most have probably normalized that in their mind. But after now Firefox for example implicitly lawfully claims all the google docs you edit as their IP, that should be a bridge too far for anyone using it even slightly professionally. God help if you also use it as a person that Mozilla considers you their political blood enemy (which isn't exactly hard nowadays). Not exactly the Firefox 1.0 release I still remember. Not even as benign as its worst enemy it was built to be against at the time. Truly Dark Knight -esque.
- layer8 2y agoMozilla is changing the wording: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms... There is still cause for criticism, but if you think Mozilla is worse than Google (Chrome) or Microsoft (Edge), then that’s hard to take seriously.
- maxlin 2y agoHard to? Missed the part about Mozilla basically being an advertising company nowadays, and "a global band of activists"? Something Chrome-adjacent, like Chromium or Brave doesn't have the stain Firefox and everything close to it now has. That is not a position that is hard to maintain. Firefox has come so far from what it once was. I did once cheer for it, but it simply has become its own worst enemy. Almost nothing is left, crazy to think they're the only competing browser engine independent from the chromelikes.