[Microblog] Firefox is just another US-corporate product with an 'open source' sticker on it

Another reminder that the Mozilla Foundation has no members and is controlled wholly by the board of directors for the Mozilla corp. https://hacktivis.me/articles/mozilla-foundation-has-no-members

jwz* last month: Mozilla is an advertising company now

This seems completely normal and cool and not troublesome in any way.

Mozilla has acquired Anonym, a *[blah blah blah]* raise the bar for the advertising industry *[blah blah blah]* while delivering effective advertising solutions. [...]

Anonym was founded with two core beliefs: *[blah blah blah]* and second, that digital advertising is critical for the sustainability of free content, services and experiences. [...]

As we integrate Anonym into the Mozilla family, we are excited about the possibilities this partnership brings. While Anonym will continue to serve its customer base, together, we are poised to lead the industry toward a future where privacy and effective advertising go hand in hand, supporting a free and open internet.

Anonym was founded in 2022 by former Facebook executives Brad Smallwood and Graham Mudd. The company was backed by Griffin Gaming Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Heracles Capital as well as a number of strategic individual investors.

Now hear me out, but *What If...*? browser development was in the hands of some kind of nonprofit organization?

Oh wait.

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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski

You're going to be tracked regardless if this enabled or disabled. It doesn't matter what web browser you use.

Does librewolf have something similar to Firefox sync? I use plenty of devices and having (most of) my settings and addons sync automatically is a pretty handy feature.

@Lokjo thanks for pointing this out.

@librewolf

@Lokjo What non-corporate browser is better than Librewolf?

@Lokjo @librewolf
Today I completed my daily driver transition to #LibreWolf ; this thread was the catalyst.

I love love LOVE the idea of a simply stripped-down, un-f--ked #FireFox

I love that it was able to use Sync and pull all my saved stuff directly from mozilla.

My only complaint is that LibreWolf demands to be pro-bono libre volunteers; they won't shut up and take my money!

I still contribute monthly to FF; I pretend it's to fund upstream development.

@Lokjo @librewolf Firefox itself is just controlled OP. Google is the primary funding source of Mozilla and Mozilla jumps when Chrome says to jump. They have already been super vauge about their manifest V3 complience so its likely firefox will slowly go along with it. Its what they did with JPEGXL. Google wanted the superior JPEGXL out so they could push WEBP and the corporate friendly AVIF. Mozilla intially went against google and included JPEGXL support in dev builds with plans to push it to stable but then immediately changed tones and went with google dropping it completely. RN librewolf is just furry fox with some settings checked. So i'm worried if Mozilla makes some huge manifest V3 friendly changes librewolf will just slowly trail these updates.

@Lokjo @librewolf @aral
Looks to me like it's time to move back to @Vivaldi who have at least been very transparent when it comes to (recent) privacy settings.

@Lokjo @librewolf prior to the version 128 update looked for this and found a related option that was DISABLED for some reason:

"[_] Tell websites not to sell or share my data."

How is THAT a default?! Because I certainly would agree to that any time of the day.

@Lokjo

I love @librewolf!

Please explain why you think #privacyPreservingAttribution is a bad thing! I am collecting pros and cons here:
https://suma-ev.social/@christian/112761712837712799