And since you won’t be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility.

The community feedback is… interesting to say the least.

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Obligatory use Firefox

No way. Why should I feel obligated to use something I feel has inferior UX and UI than the browser I’m using now? For Mozilla’s CEO to rais her wage (again): https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html ?

You people are really delusional if you really think that Mozilla are the only good guys (or good guys at all, for that matters).

Inb4, unimaginative people downvoting just because they can’t stand different opinions.

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What’s your alternative?

EDIT: Oh I just found in the profile. It’s Brave. I used it for half a year before I got tired of the crypto ads sneaking into my home page’s links no matter how many times I deleted them and of some other stuff. I prefer Firefox’s UI. Also I don’t expect any browser to be 100% ethical but Brave is below Firefox in that list for me

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If you truly cared about the state of the internet youd only browse websites with wget and text editors

Or something

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https://lynx.invisible-island.net/ come now, we don’t have to be barbarians, there’s text browsers out there

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Nice detective skills. I have the opposite view about Brave/Mozilla. But fine, we can agree to disagree and still be (virtual) friends.

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Opposite view of what? Brave is peddling crypto bullshit

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We don’t wanna be friends with crypto-bros here.

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It doesn’t matter and it’s irrelevant here. I just despise Mozilla and their false morality. Use whatever you want.

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It’s not irrelevant since you stated Firefox is less good than what you are using now. Of course people are interested in a feasible alternative. So, since you introduced it, what are you using instead?

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So you’ll rather give in to blatant corporate greed?

What kind of Alt-Right logic is this?

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I downvoted you because you made a terrible case for yourself. Learn to make a salient point, or learn to love being “edgy”. the choice is up to you, but the internet already has plenty of the latter, why not become the former?

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Nice to know that you downvoted me for no actual reason, as I didn’t make any “case”. Have a candy.

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??? What’s your point even? Usually when someone attempts an argument they have some information.

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That’s just how it goes now it seems, we just have to go with the lesser of the evils for everything. Sure there is FOSS for some stuff but even then FOSS has its fair share of issues

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Are there any independent OSes for Android phones you can install?

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Moreover, Firefox’s UI is incomparably superior to that of Chrome.

No. It’s crap. Utter crap.

without considering the infinite userchrome.css customisations.

“Unsupported” and surely an incentive for less tech-savvy people to look elewhere. But whatever. I’ won’t bother to reply to anything else, as you’re statistically one of these persons that spend their life watching crappy youtube videos and buying shit on Amazon.

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I feel obligated to raise awareness about these topics. I won’t prevent anyone from choosing Chrome, but at the very least it’s important for people to know what their choice can entail, and base their decision on that.

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We also need to raise awareness about what giving google hegemony over defining what the web will be means.

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I won’t prevent anyone from using FF, either. I just think that the “obligatory use Firefox” is quite arrogant, to say the least. And, to be honest, I’m quite happy it’s not going to happen until FF is managed by Mozilla and their poor choices.

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The obligatory use Firefox has been a running gag in the FOSS community for ages now. Nothing arrogant about it, though it does come across as a bit blunt and brazen, to be fair.

It’s just that letting a single entity be the ultimate authority on how the internet (or anything, for that matter) should look like is objectively a bad idea.

Especially when that entity is widely known for being insidiously self serving, malicious and manipulative.

That being said, enough people have explained this already, so I’m gonna leave it there.

Have a nice day

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There is a huge difference between mozilla and google. That’s quite obvious to most. The ceo raising his salary is a problem for you, and you prefer Google, where they have enormous salaries and incomes? It’s one of the richest companies in the world.

Firefox doesn’t have inferior UX at all. It has more functions and features than chrome. It also has very good default privacy and the plugin system is amazing.

And it just became faster than chrome as well.

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The ceo raising his salary is a problem for you

It’s not for me (anymore). It should be for you. She was raising her salary while firing devs… But whatever. Mozillians are seldom rational.

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Keep being delusional, It’s free, after all.

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Dude, look, I’m sorry Firefox killed your dog (or whatever). But please stop spamming your irrational hate-boner for Mozilla all over the thread.

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I don’t have to point anybody in the direction of anything. Make your choices as I did mines.

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They’re not saying you should feel obligated to use Firefox. It’s a tongue-in-cheek joke about how everything FLOSS, Privacy or GDPR related always includes a comment thread about using Firefox. I use Brave too but you gotta read the room. Lemmy users in general are going to be much more pro-Firefox than anything else.

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I understand. I just feel it’s quite arrogant ans annoying to be (indirectly) schooled by strangers on the internet who think they know better.

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UX is not worse than Chrome, please shut up.

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What do you use?

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Not Firefox.

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It’s IE isn’t it?

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I think they probably use Netscape

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You criticize but don’t even have the balls to name your browser? To back up your claims?

That is pathetic.

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