Sarah Jamie LewisSep 13, 2024

Firefox forks might be a reasonable short-term solution to the current era of Mozilla paper cuts, but the crisis is ultimately driven by economics.

Browser dev and maintenance is expensive and that pressure is pushing Mozilla towards the same underhanded, advertiser-driven strategies embraced by google et al.

At best firefox-forks are a less well funded version of what Mozilla used (at least publicly) aim for.

Show threadSarah Jamie LewisSep 13, 2024
What I would really like to see in the browser space is an actual strong vision that prioritizes the open web, and community building - one that suggests alternatives to ad-tech (e.g. browser support for micropayments or subscriptions or view-proportional payments or the dozens of other models proposed over the decades)
Show threadSarah Jamie LewisSep 13, 2024

More broadly, I think it most spaces people are desperate for something that can actually cheer on - instead of half-heartedly supporting because they are not-technically as bad as the other options in some categories.

A vision of a future. Rather than a continuously exploited present.

Show threadlaurent
@sarahjamielewis I want to see a @servo based browser with good anti-ad tech, and a built-in way to remunerate visits like you say. Sounds like a browser of the future.
Sep 14, 2024 at 7:22amWeb