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[–] 41 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why would anyone install a proprietary freeware browser?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    It's a very usable browser and vivaldi explicitly do no AI, unlike firefox. I get that firefox is the only serious cross platform competitor to chromium, but mozilla really does consistently shoot itself in the foot. it's like they're masochistic.

    edit: vivaldi also actually seems to have a vision and design goals, which firefox sort of lacks.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How did moz shoot themselves in the foot? I am genuinely asking as I missed any controversy.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Firefox has been slowly ramping up AI integration and data collection/telemetry. Fortunately theres many forks that rip all that out. Librewolf and ironfox are good examples.

    The truth is Mozilla is not profitable as a company and FF would have died a long time ago if Google didn't pay up to keep them alive to help avoid monopoly busting suits. In a worse timeline we don't even have modern FF to fork from or ublock in 2025.

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