Firefox and Chromium are open source, but virtually everybody working on them is employed by Google or Mozilla.

If you look at the changelogs and dev blogs of all the various forked versions of those projects, what you’ll see is that the devs spend basically all their time trying to keep up with all the changes coming out of Google/Mozilla and then trying to find out how to re-integrate the tweaks they’ve developed that makes their version different – which is normally just applying a skin, or a plugin, or removing something they consider a misfeature.

Lmao, no… browsers like LibreWolf have no issues keeping up with updates.

Oh, I wasn’t aware you’d started. You must be a terrible teacher.

That’s because you keep moving goalposts so you don’t have to face the reality that you’re a moron that’s blowing smoke. You stated, “even if you’re putting a massive effort in by using almost exclusively FOSS and maintaining a stack of ad blockers.” That gave it away. With that statement, I know, you’re an idiot and have nooooooooooooo fucking clue how this shit works. And I called you out there… and you conveniently ignored that and changed the subject. So do you want me to explain how easy it is to setup adblocking that requires no maintenance? And then will you admit that you are wrong? Because again, it doesn’t require any maintenance and the smallest of effort to setup initially. I’ll teach you buddy, don’t worry, no cost to you.

Also let’s look at my initial claim, “I selfhost and use mostly FOSS and have ways of blocking 99% of ads and locally control all my IoT so if you’re willing to learn then you don’t have to feel that way. Because I feel in full control and in harmony with everything.”

Two things. 1) I said mostly FOSS, 2) I do feel in harmony with the amount of control and customization I have over my devices which was in response to someone feeling the opposite. You’ve not said anything to counter this. I can easily go through my entire stack on every platform if you are actually interested in learning how these things work. But if not, I will continue to make fun of you for being dumb, I don’t care either way. You’re entertaining me.

You realize that Firefox is open source and there are hardened versoins that don’t have the “enshitification” aspects removed from it, right? How fucking dumb are you buddy, that’s the great thing about FOSS… if we don’t like something in a project, we fork it.

There has been a fork out for a long time now that is still developed, it’s called syncthing-fork

My phone is running LineageOS without GAPPS. My browser in Android is cromite. My computers all run Linux and I use Firefox but with the advent of this news, might be changing to more hardened versions of it. I spend next to no effort maintaining my ad blockers past the initial setup, the fact that you have no idea how much work is involved shows that you’re out of your element, and have no idea what you are talking about.

Why did my comment seemingly irk you? Do you feel insecure because you are lazy and adopted a defeatist attitude? It is actually possible to control your devices and data, just because you’re ignorant.

www.xbrowsersync.org

You can selfhost it too.

I selfhost and use mostly FOSS and have ways of blocking 99% of ads so if you’re willing to learn then you don’t have to feel that way.

That’s why I only use immich as a gallery and not as a photo backup solution. I manage the syncing with syncthing.

Or Silo.

Two free wins for the Niners every year.

Plex was always terrible, anyone that uses it is an imbecile.