from Rusty@cubhub.social to firefox@fedia.io on 06 Mar 20:09
https://cubhub.social/users/Rusty/statuses/114117298937145470
Me: Please don't use Chromium-based browsers, use Firefox instead. Google has way too much control over the web because of Chromium and they'll be sure to leverage that in order to benefit themselves.
Chromium: Hey all, we're getting rid of ad-blockers because it's cutting into our record-breaking revenue! I mean, uh, we're deprecating Manifest V2 for, uh, security. Yeah.
Me: See? Please use Firefox. :blobfoxmeltsob:
Mozilla: Hey friends, AI is really cool! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we're making an ads business! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we have a ToS with either the most nefarious or the most incompetent language ever! *steps on rake* Also AI is cool!!!
Me: ... :corgi_wtf1: I hate it here.
#Mozilla #Firefox #Google #Chrome #Chromium #FOSS
#chrome #chromium #firefox #foss #google #mozilla
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@Rusty @aral
I am sure there is a good explanation for firefox TOS change. 🙂
@adnan I don't have as big of an issue with the ToS as everyone else does. I just think it's another silly Mozilla flub where they do something without particularly thinking it through. :blobfoxgooglymlem:
@Rusty @adnan Yeah, like the oops we’re getting half-a-billion dollars a year from Google, silly us. Or, my favourite, oops, our head of public policy just told Aral “Why are you so hard on us? We’re just another Silicon Valley tech company“ at a conference they were both speaking at when pleading with him not to call them out on their hypocrisy.
Silly rabbits!
🤷♂️
@aral @Rusty @adnan
"Oops! Accidentally paid our CEO $6 million a year"
@GuerillaOntologist @Rusty @adnan 🙊
@aral @GuerillaOntologist @adnan Yeah but I'd take that over a browser that's funded by selling AI to Israeli Defense Forces. :meowshrug: Like yeah Mozilla is bad but they're incompetent-bad, not really evil-bad outside of the typical pitfalls of late stage capitalism. That said, I do distrust them enough to use a fork.
@Rusty @GuerillaOntologist @adnan This is true. Mozilla’s browser is not funded by selling AI to the Israeli Defence Forces. It’s funded by the browser that’s funded by selling AI to the Israeli Defence Forces.
Isn’t capitalism great?
@aral @GuerillaOntologist @adnan Yeah but I'd argue that Mozilla is a victim of Google's market position more than profiting from it. Google put Mozilla under their thumb and Mozilla didn't really have much ability to stop it. None of this is great. :blobfoxmeltsob:
@Rusty @GuerillaOntologist @adnan True. Their poor CEO. Having to take all those millions. If only someone could save them from this life of misery.
@aral @GuerillaOntologist @adnan Faulting Mozilla for American's unregulated capitalism is a wild take.
@Rusty @GuerillaOntologist @adnan Indeed. No arguments there. Just that folks have to know to still protect themselves because the so-called alternatives are not safe by default either. That said, Mozilla is the best you can expect under capitalism. Which is, itself, a pretty damning indictment of capitalism.
@aral @GuerillaOntologist @adnan My fox being on fire and my planet being on fire ;^; Heck you capitalism.
Mind you, this still isn't a good excuse to use a Chromium-based browser.
And for all you people using Brave out there, well :corgi_wtf1: 🖕 Brave is run by this guy who hates queer people and believes conspiracy theories about Covid, so maybe don't use his shitty browser that's been caught injecting affiliate links.
#Brave #BraveBrowser #Mozilla #Firefox #Google #Chrome #Chromium #FOSS
@Rusty Yeah, this is what Brave really is: https://basicattentiontoken.org
Asshats, the lot of ‘em.
@aral @Rusty oof - thanks for sharing