LiamJun 11, 2024

Just a reminder that friends don't let friend use the Brave browser

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

Stop using Brave Browser

Seriously.

The Spacebar
Show threadPictoPulse356Jun 11, 2024
@ThePlant In my opinion, Firefox is the best
Show threadMartin Be

@PictoPulse356 @ThePlant Sadly not anymore.

https://infosec.exchange/@kevinrothrock/112606605318531051

Kevin Rothrock (@[email protected])

At the request of Russia’s federal censor, the Mozilla Foundation, the entity behind Firefox, is blocking censorship circumvention add-ons for its browser, including ones developed specifically to help those in Russia bypass state censorship. https://theintercept.com/2024/06/12/mozilla-firefox-russia-censorship-blocked/

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Jun 13, 2024 at 7:45amWeb
Show threadPictoPulse356Jun 13, 2024
@MartinBe @ThePlant Very disappointing to read this
Show threadMartin BeJun 13, 2024
@PictoPulse356 @ThePlant Yeap.. I was shocked and scared as heck by reading this article today morning. As well as the entire community around this browser. It is a very heavy shot in the own knees for Mozilla.
Show threadPictoPulse356Jun 13, 2024
@MartinBe @ThePlant I have always used Firefox for a very long time ago, I didn't see this coming. It is one of the biggest open source projects, so I didn't expect this
Show threadMartin BeJun 13, 2024
@PictoPulse356 @ThePlant Same here. I migrated to FF from Chromium few years ago due to the entire google bullshit what they are doing. I just wanted to have nothing absolutely common with that company. You know, degoogled myself totally. The only reasonable choice at the point was FF. But now I am not sure anymore about the Mozilla being trustworthy as the foundation, and/or browser creator. As I told already to my wife, one simple click and they can do with FF users completely what they want.
Show threadPictoPulse356Jun 13, 2024
@MartinBe @ThePlant I understand, have same situation not too many options out there open-source and privacy respecting. A lot of small browsers are good but could potentially have issues with some webapages. But I will consider mull browser for example, or cromite.
Show threadMartin BeJun 13, 2024
@PictoPulse356 @ThePlant The main problem is that they are also google code based ones. The browser name can differ but under the hood that's still google owned and designed code. They can do exact same as Mozilla did. This is the most important issue here in the whole topic. Control on the browser engine and its code. No one should be able to push some "control kill switch" on and have total control on the browser and its engine. Such important apps/code should be only/always community owned.