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Switch to Firefox!

mococa 2y ago
https://adguard.com/en/blog/mozilla-deletes-promise-to-never-sell-your-data.html https://adguard.com/en/blog/mozilla-deletes-promise-to-never...
- sejje 2y ago
  Switch to lynx!
- protimewaster 2y ago
  If someone was previously using Chrome, though, they're probably not that protective off their data. So it would seem like Firefox is a decent solution even if it is selling your data. Google was probably selling your data too...
- GuB-42 2y ago
  Maybe but it doesn't affect the ad-blocking abilities of Firefox and uBlock Origin. It is a legal document, not a technical document. If you want to go with ethics and trust, I am not particular fond of Brave practice of replacing ads for some shady cryptocurrency (BAT). You don't have to do that, you can just use it as an adblocking browser, but if you don't care about these things, the news of Firefox updating some privacy policy shouldn't affect you too much either. Anyways, both Firefox and Brave/Chromium are open source, you can see what data is being sent out, and there are forks. And to make things clear, I am not really a fan of Mozilla direction, I just switched because Firefox became better and Chrome worse in the last years.
- CivBase 2y ago
  The point of switching to Firefox is not "Google bad, Mozilla good". The point is to chip away at the chromium browser monopoly. If you have another non-chromium browser to recommend, please share as an alternative. Mozilla has not proven themselves to be trustworthy, but I think most would still consider them to be less untrustworthy than Google. Firefox offers similar levels of support, feature parity, and performance to Chrome, which makes it an easy alternative to recommend. There are certainly other non-chromium options worth considering, but Firefox is still by far the most accessible.
  - fauigerzigerk 2y ago
    >feature parity No PWA support out of the box last time I looked. And Firefox (understandably but annoyingly) doesn't support some of the non-standardised Chrome APIs such as the File System Access API.
    - MyOutfitIsVague 2y ago
      Not on desktop, but PWA support is there on Firefox for Android at least.
OptionOfT 2y ago
Firefox on iOS has no built-in adblocker making it a no-go. And I need sync between platforms.
- tgv 2y ago
  Firefox Focus at least removes trackers. It's a wrapper around Safari, anyway.
- tmottabr 2y ago
  firefox on iOS on most places is just a firefox skin on top of safari, since Apple does not let other browsers engines in iOS..
- nuker 2y ago
  I use Wipr in Safari on both, iOS and Mac. Small one time purchase each. And i enable only passive filters, not the active one, that requires page access.
KingLancelot 2y ago
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Switch to Firefox!

https://adguard.com/en/blog/mozilla-deletes-promise-to-never-sell-your-data.html https://adguard.com/en/blog/mozilla-deletes-promise-to-never...

sejje 2y ago
Switch to lynx!
protimewaster 2y ago
If someone was previously using Chrome, though, they're probably not that protective off their data. So it would seem like Firefox is a decent solution even if it is selling your data. Google was probably selling your data too...
GuB-42 2y ago
Maybe but it doesn't affect the ad-blocking abilities of Firefox and uBlock Origin. It is a legal document, not a technical document. If you want to go with ethics and trust, I am not particular fond of Brave practice of replacing ads for some shady cryptocurrency (BAT). You don't have to do that, you can just use it as an adblocking browser, but if you don't care about these things, the news of Firefox updating some privacy policy shouldn't affect you too much either. Anyways, both Firefox and Brave/Chromium are open source, you can see what data is being sent out, and there are forks. And to make things clear, I am not really a fan of Mozilla direction, I just switched because Firefox became better and Chrome worse in the last years.
CivBase 2y ago
The point of switching to Firefox is not "Google bad, Mozilla good". The point is to chip away at the chromium browser monopoly. If you have another non-chromium browser to recommend, please share as an alternative. Mozilla has not proven themselves to be trustworthy, but I think most would still consider them to be less untrustworthy than Google. Firefox offers similar levels of support, feature parity, and performance to Chrome, which makes it an easy alternative to recommend. There are certainly other non-chromium options worth considering, but Firefox is still by far the most accessible.
- fauigerzigerk 2y ago
  >feature parity No PWA support out of the box last time I looked. And Firefox (understandably but annoyingly) doesn't support some of the non-standardised Chrome APIs such as the File System Access API.
  - MyOutfitIsVague 2y ago
    Not on desktop, but PWA support is there on Firefox for Android at least.

OptionOfT 2y ago

Firefox on iOS has no built-in adblocker making it a no-go. And I need sync between platforms.

tgv 2y ago
Firefox Focus at least removes trackers. It's a wrapper around Safari, anyway.
tmottabr 2y ago
firefox on iOS on most places is just a firefox skin on top of safari, since Apple does not let other browsers engines in iOS..
nuker 2y ago
I use Wipr in Safari on both, iOS and Mac. Small one time purchase each. And i enable only passive filters, not the active one, that requires page access.

KingLancelot 2y ago

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