https://reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1dofyj1/how_did_mozilla_firefox_go_from_being_the_best/

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Seriously, every post I read that’s upvoted is smack talking Mozilla in every way possible and it just so happens to take place exactly when Google quietly announces Manifest V3. Mozilla is not our enemy, Google is. Don’t let all these bot upvoted comments and posts let you forget that. Has Mozilla made some questionable moves lately? Yeah… the biggest being the purchase of Anonym. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-the-bar-for-privacy-preserving-digital-advertising/

We’ll just have to wait and see how that turns out. But I found it amusing when I saw this post and it got so many upvotes immediately after Mozilla announced the purchase. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1dkujuh/mozilla_anonym_is_a_datahoovering_monster/

Then Mozilla allegedly fired someone because he has cancer. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/mozilla-is-trying-to-push-me-out-because-i-have-cancer-cpo-says-in-bombshell-lawsuit/ar-BB1oOjOZ

Then I was reading Mozilla android browser is suddenly the worst and least secure android browser.

It’s never ending… Honestly I think I am just going to take some time away from Reddit because it’s becoming such a corporate shill and bot upvoted cesspool. I’m sure this will get heavily down-voted but I just wanted to give my two cents. Mozilla will always be my preferred choice for privacy and security and unless I see some actual changes within the browsers no one will ever convince me otherwise.

145 points

I don’t trust Reddit anymore, and to my knowledge Mozilla has always put user rights before corporate greed. Also Mozilla is a sort of non profit. So you’re gonna need more than anecdotes to change my mind.

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18 points

Mozilla acquiring an ad company is something of a bad sign though.

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59 points

The BBC is a respected broadcaster in the UK that shows no ads as it is government funded. They have investments abroad that have ads showing their programs, for profit to fund more programming. It doesn’t change their mission. In fact, some shows have cone from their for-profit division. You can have values and be for the people but still live on the real world.

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4 points

No, it’s not government funded. It’s funded by the people from a yearly licence fee, so has no ads. This is how it stays politically impartial too (mostly).

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HAHAHAHAH are you fucking seriously comparing a company with free overhead to one that doesn’t? Fuck thst might take the cake for the dumbest shit I’ve seen all day.👏👏👏

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1 point

creating a privacy friendly ad organization for people as an alternative to google is what they should be doing.

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9 points

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0 points

Not always look at pocket or the mr robot promo.

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102 points

Firefox is… fine. Everything else sucks.

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Yup, moved back to it from chrome about a year ago. It’s more stable than chrome was to me. Sounds like some corporate bullshit pushing the Mozilla hate.

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57 points

It’s happening on lemmy too. People making posts in multiple subs saying that FF is super buggy, etc.

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Probably cos google keeps breqkibb things for it. Ive also found a lot of things work fine if u spoof user agent so i recon real people real issues fake cause.

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12 points

I wouldn’t say they are wrong, I’ve got plenty of issues with Firefox that aren’t in chromium-based browsers. Mostly with media playback, but on Android the toolbar hide on scroll is a mess, no matter what it just covers the page. Makes it really hard to use a menu or click a button depending on where it is. I also have some locally run services that throw js errors in FF but not in cromite, chromium, or chrome.

Doesn’t mean I don’t prefer FF because I acknowledge it has problems. I don’t generally view videos in my browser anyway, and I disable the hide-on-scroll feature. And if I have a particularly problematic site (the js errors), I open cromite or whatever.

The bigger issue isn’t people talking about bugs, but downplaying the role the foundation plays in supporting users. That, imo, is where a lot of misinformation and disinformation seems to live.

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Something’s a little fishy with all the hate i recon.

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2 points

You’ve said it a couple times so just FYI it’s “reckon”.

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Fuck the spellin nazis are out strong today. Gotta ensure purity of language ey?

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28 points

They’re still a great company reddit just likes to whine and argue

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