• kadu@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I almost feel like there’s some type of coordinated sabotage going on against Firefox.

    There’s zero issues using the browser - performance, extensions and websites all work as expected.

    The “privacy scandals” were extremely overblown pieces of nothing, especially compared to what Brave, Chrome and Edge do.

    And yes there are a million reasons to criticize how Mozilla spends their money… But I don’t see how that would mean somehow Firefox is bad for the user?

    Hell, Lemmy and Reddit (and “tech” YouTubers like Chris Titus) are so anti-Firefox and into hax0r l33t browsers that they heavily recommended a Chromium fork that turns out was maintained by a prepubescent boy hiding furry porn in the builds.

    I simply don’t get it. Use Firefox, it works, it’s private unless you’re a major target like Snowden, it’s fast, it’s been around for over a decade and will be for a decade more.

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      10 months ago

      Nope, not going to use anything that may bring corrupt Mozilla any visibility or revenue, not even a fork with the same use agent. I prefer using a Chromium browser.

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          The lesser of the two evils for me is Chromium with inbuilt adblocker (and an adblockinng DNS on top of it). Mozilla can (should) die in a fire, as far as I am concerned.

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      that they heavily recommended a Chromium fork that turns out was maintained by a prepubescent boy hiding furry porn in the builds.

      you know, I’ve heard a lot of shit about Brave, but I must’ve missed that one – or is this another, different, heavily sponsored Chromium fork?

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        Thorium had the furry porn. I use it for work as I need a Chromium browser for compatibility. Librewolf for everything else.

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          It’s telling the guy went “what did Brave do now?”, though.

          Maybe telling that we have a couple meme opinions in our head for these recurring arguments and we don’t particularly consider anything else, but telling nonetheless.

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          10 months ago

          ahh, I never saw that one advertised myself, lucky me. The only Chromium fork with heavy sponsorship and clown-show-antics surrounding it I could think of was Brave.

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        brave has the cryptomining bs, and scam the owner is homophobic, plus brave was or is funded by PETER THIEL, theres a potential conflict of interest.

        but some users use brave because of its anti-fingerprinting, which helps evade some reddit filters.

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          10 months ago

          Yeah I’ve heard all of that jazz, it was the stuff I quoted I’d not heard about.