With the writing on the wall with firefoxes own version of “don’t be evil” being removed I was curious what people on beehaw were switching to.

  • millie@beehaw.org
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    1 day ago

    It sounds like they just swapped out a more colloquial phrasing for a more careful legal phrasing that they were required to have in order to function normally. It doesn’t sound as though anything’s changing at the moment.

    • Gamers_mate@beehaw.orgOP
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      10 hours ago

      If that’s the case it probably would have been better to add the legal phrasing onto it without removing the original phrasing. I am happy to continue using firefox as long as they don’t break their promise.

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      8 hours ago

      There is baseless FUD, and there is reasonable loss of trust. This one seems to have a reasonable explanation, but actions will speak louder. We’ll see.

  • Noxy@pawb.social
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    sticking with regular Firefox for now. Mozilla is making some dumb decisions lately, for damn sure, but none that make me question using the browser without any “services”, yet

  • Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org
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    I probably don’t count as Firefox is not my main browser, but I’m a very happy Vivaldi user. It’s Chrome-based but comes with a great built-in (optional) ad and tracking blocker already, has tons of customisation features and makes it easy to disable all things Google (permanently, even).

    • Gamers_mate@beehaw.orgOP
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      Chromium based competition is still better than no competition even though I am trying to avoid anything chrome based.

      • Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org
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        I share your sentiment towards a Chrome hegemony, and I tried to use Firefox as my main browser a few times in the past. It’s just that Vivaldi feels way more polished to me out-of-the-box. Some of the things probably just need some getting used to, but you know what they say about old habits…