So it seems that #Firefox went ahead and just re-enabled these terrible settings
That's 1 strike for the fox.. One more and it's out
Maybe i should build my own browser and not made of Chromium crap (no offense)
@stux I know that the whole advertisement thing in Firefox is not great.
But honestly, it's still my favourite browser and I want its development to be sustainable.
So I also think that they should experiment with income streams to achieve that.
Thus I'm personally fine if I see stuff like Adidas on the start page as long as it is ethical stuff and I still have the possibility to remove it.
@alexanderadam For sure but it's more about the edit of settings after an update
That makes me lose trust
@stux@mstdn.social Je kan dit uitzetten in de settings (gelukkig!)
Maar staat nog helemaal los van het feit, dat dit lichtelijk irritant...
@me Klopt 😉 maar het ziet er naar uit dat FF het weer heeft aangezet na de update 😮
One of the immediate outcomes of the recent antitrust suit against Google for this practice is therefore going to be that many web browsers are scrambling for new sources of revenue.
But I will say, when you realize just how much revenue Firefox has been earning, it seems like they should be more than capable of maintaining a web browser and email client forever based on money they should have in the bank...
@stux only a matter of time until they put pop ups ads or something close to that definition.
'That' is the typical power of a corporation with a 'open source' sticker on to do what the heck they want, instead of listening to their users. :)
@stux@mstdn.social One of the reasons why you need to be using a fork like Librewolf
> But I will say, when you realize just how much revenue Firefox has been earning, it seems like they should be more than capable of maintaining a web browser and email client forever based on money they should have in the bank...
But if Mozilla spends all its money on software development, then who's going to do all that questionable political activism that nobody asked for?
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@stux Did you miss the memo? Mozilla is an ad and AI company now. Web browsers are so 2000s. Welcome to Hell. Might I recommend Waterfox?
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/digital-advertising-privacy/
I wasn't sure so I looked it up, and sure enough:
- About $390,000 to a new age religious cult- sorry I mean social justice organisation
- Another $100,000 to an organisation with no website or any public info on what they do (but founded by another social justice cult member, it seems)
- Another $375,000 to yet another supposedly left-wing political organisation
So, in a single year they've bled almost a million dollars to what are presumably just faux-leftist grifters pretending to do something for human rights.
All the while cutting the funding of their actual software development.
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla