It’s been a long time coming, but the trust in Firefox and its mother organization, Mozilla, seems to be mostly gone, after a recent commit on the source code removed the “we don’t sell your data” promise, along with a change of Privacy notice and Terms of Use.

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    Its the meat in a shit sandwich. If you dont like chrome based stuff, what choice is there.

    I hate that this happened, F. Mozilla for this, but its not like I can just dust off netscape or something.

    Librewolf while I wait for the enshittification of the internet services to come full circle.

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    I’m gonna keep asking if people are going to keep posting:

    Would you pay a subscription to use Firefox, and if no, what would you propose as a means of sustaining Firefox’s professional development budget if they lose Google’s Monopoly money?

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      If only my taxes were put toward things we want and need instead of murdering brown people in other countries.

      I see a browser as no different than other municipal services.

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        I would like a public email where the same protections physical mail gets are applied with end to end encryption. There are a lot of internet things that should be municipal services.

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          Public mail has protections from unlawful access, but is subject to the same search and seizure rules as everything else if presented with a lawful warrant.

          The odds of a public email with true E2EE seems damn near impossible to me.

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      22 hours ago

      I would, I was about to pay for proton before the ceo posted about liking Trump’s team. I realized if I wanted privacy I needed to self host or pay for it. I’m self hosting a lot but email is just better running thru someone else I trust.

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      If they did not prove themselves to be a better browser in terms of privacy, then what is the purpose of their existence?