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jwz Oct 4, 2024

Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now.

tl;dr: "LOL get fucked"

They've decided who their customers are, and it's not you, it's people who build and invest in surveillance advertising networks. But in a "respectful" way....
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Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now

tl;dr: "LOL get fucked" They've decided who their customers are, and it's not you, it's people who build and invest in surveillance advertising networks. But in a "respectful" way. "Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure." We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market. Gee, ya think? In parallel to our existing consumer ...

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Brent Guernsey, Artrocity Studio Oct 4, 2024

@jwz

I've used Firefox for years. This is so disappointing.

What are the best alternatives?

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Taffer 🇨🇦

@Brentguernsey @jwz I'm leery of Firefox forks; they seem to get behind on merging updates, and I worry about them just fizzling out. Browsers are stupidly complex and require a lot of effort.

Vivaldi might be the least-bad Chrome browser, but none of the Chrome browsers ever "feels" right, and I can't figure out what about the UI bugs me.

Hopefully Servo gets viable soon?

#mozilla #firefox #vivaldi #servo