Okay, look. Chromium’s monopoly is definitely a concern. But Firefox is also not the answer here.
In a way, you are giving Firefox leeway to do as they want since they are the only thing stopping Chromium’s monopoly. That’s equally wrong.
Use the better, more secure technology, until we have something better. Don’t use Firefox because it’s not Chromium - that’s definitely not healthy.
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so no browser? got it.
Yeah, like there’s better, more secure technology available. Firefox is a fantastic browser still, and basically whatever bad things you think Firefox does, Chrome does it way worse.
The main advantage Chrome has is that websites don’t bother to test in other browsers that much anymore, so some will work better. Especially Google’s.
But Google has enough power as it is. Don’t give them more.
I pulled a uno-reverse: I only test on Firefox and occasionally fix a chrome bug when I’m notified (I’m not given enough resources to test on both).
Updated my phone last night, this morning I was greeted by a notification that a Firefox update had granted itself unrestricted access to my location data. So now I’m trying a couple of android FF forks, I’m getting off before they hit the full downslide into enshitification.
Huh… mine has that, too. I feel like I haven’t given FF that permission. Maybe I loaded a map app at some point, but I don’t recall.
I hope they’re not doing that maliciously.
Thing is, I specifically deny every app unrestricted access to my location. I KNOW for a fact I denied it all permissions. When I cut FF location permission to “get fucked” I noticed it also had camera and mic unrestricted access. Also the in app telemetry options were all set to share with Mozilla. They also were not when I set it up…
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Imho Firefox is the better tech. Still having manifest V2, which allows full blown ad blocking, is worth potential downsides in other areas.Use the better, more secure technology
More secure according to what?
@[email protected] according to your threat model, of course.
@[email protected] i mean for now, at the moment i use librewolf+fennec on android… for now there’s just not a good other alternative for firefox/chrome so between their two i choose firefox
