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@dansup @pixelfed I'm patiently waiting for Pixelfed stable apk build 🙈.. also hope it will be released on Fdroid as well 🥺
@hatchet @mastermind I like how it shows when you open the website on Chromium but not on Firefox, that's #cool 😁

It’s small, but here’s a real actionable item that you can do to help:

Put a gentle “Use Firefox” (or any other non-Chromium-based browser) message on your website. It doesn’t have to be in-your-face, just something small. I’ve taken my own advice and added it to my own website: geeklaunch.io (Only appears in Chromium-based browsers.)

We can slowly turn the tide, little by little.

Copy and paste:

<p> This site is designed for <a href="https://firefox.com/">Firefox</a>, a web browser that respects your privacy. </p>

(I also posted this on the HN discussion.)

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but some companies are too attached to their code  

What differentiates Mullvad Browser from, for instance, arkenfox's user.js or Librewolf? · Issue #1 · mullvad/mullvad-browser

I definitely think this fork is a cool concept, but I don't particularly see the need for an extra browser binary when Firefox itself can manage multiple profiles in the first place (I have this st...

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@Scorpion8741 @trafotin @librewolf for how long you're going to use #arkenfox and the main dev said they'll retire it because Mullvad browser exists now, and it has way better approach to browser fingerprinting resistance ( this proves my point : forks do matter )

Librewolf will have to work on their own configuration to debloat Firefox once that happens, and in my opinion trust doesn't count much as an argument because everything is done in the open ( FLOSS ), I never heard Trafotin uses this argument ( and he shouldn't ) because he writes configuration scripts and so he's a third party !!

so you see this argument isn't always valid

if it was about trust, than I do trust the devs who are doing more to protect the user privacy and security than those who don't, but the first rule is it has to be done in the open.

@isgleas @uselessauth

Crypto doesn't solve a problem, it prevents a problem from happening ( banking surveillance )

This is scary. It's (strong) SafetyNet for websites.

Every now and then I run into another Android app I can no longer run because someone decided my phone, running an official build of my choice of OS, that isn't even rooted, is "not trustable".

Now they want to start doing that for websites.

This kills open Linux on the desktop (including Asahi Linux). It kills alternative browsers. It is a backdoor to kill ad blockers.

No. Just no. Please.

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md

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@Scorpion8741 @trafotin also, forks are there for a reason, if you want an un-mozillied browser these forks are your best bet, also they get fast updates especially @librewolf because they take security seriously

I don't wanna go as far as saying : Firefox is a spyware, but I heard many people label it as such, because of the telemetry and that token

moreover, Palemoon uses a different render engine I believe so it's more of a competitor, not a fork, and it can be more secure than other browsers, I remember once FF got a vulnerability while Palemoon didn't get affected by it, remember vulnerabilities maybe discovered too late

@Makeshift @CAPSLOCKFTW for me FF is slower on Android, not on Desktop