So, I’m staying with #Firefox, even though their CEO is tone-deaf and clumsy and destroying #Mozilla’s reputation because today I had to remove 6 extensions in #Vivaldi (my sometimes alternate browser), several of which were security-related, because of Google’s changes. I miss them. I want them back.
Bottom line. I definitely feel more secure using Firefox than a Chrome-based browser, and I won’t let my disappointment with Mozilla kill off the only alternative to Google. I will continue using Firefox.
As far as using a fork of Firefox, if Firefox doesn’t live on, neither will these forks.
Google only dictates the internets shape because we allow them to. It’s time to start moving away where we can, and encouraging others to do the same.
You don’t have to completely degoogle all at once, but moving your emails to a privacy-respecting alternative is a quick, one-time step you can take to reduce their market share
agree, with the caveat that “we” isn’t us the individuals, but rather the companies that pay google.
Agree, with the caveat that “we” is all of the above because fuck every source of data and income for Google
I was more thinking along the lines of, google doesn’t care what free users do. they are an advertising company with a business service arm, so their money comes from advertisers and business accounts. every private individual could degoogle right now and google would keep running just fine.
You are absolutely correct on every point. I just really don’t like Google so I want them to choke