• @over_clox
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    -2621 hours ago

    It’s not gonna mean much of shit soon, anyone in the know is ditching Firefox for alternatives.

    Firefox has changed their terms of service and is now starting to sell user data.

      • @grue
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        018 hours ago

        The fact that they attempted them at all is a breach of trust (and I say that as someone who’s been a Firefox user and advocate without interruption since all the way back when it was called “Phoenix”).

      • @over_clox
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        -121 hours ago

        IDK, time will tell, we’ll see eventually.

        We live in the world of enshittification, when changes like that happen, even when briefly reverted, are usually a sign of times to come soon…

    • @Nikelui
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      721 hours ago

      I’m curious, ditching Firefox for what? Chromium browsers? More Firefox forks? Is there even a good alternative?

      • @over_clox
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        420 hours ago

        New territory for me as well, but I don’t want to go with Chromium or any fork of that.

        As of yesterday I’ve started testing Fennec, a recommended fork of Firefox, that has supposedly gutted much of the bullshit.

        I dunno anything for sure though, just basically dipping my toes in the fresh digital waters…

    • Madbrad200
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      13 hours ago

      Lol people have been “ditching” Firefox for various reasons for years. If you can barely get people to ditch Chrome, good luck with making some ff fork relevant.

    • XanthraxOP
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      321 hours ago

      Yeah, your data is the trade away. I’m trying to fork it rn and bake in the extensions.

    • @[email protected]
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      119 hours ago

      Problem is, that many alternatives still just build up on Firefox

      If Firefox is dying, Waterfox, LibreWolf, etc will be dying with it, as they don’t have the resources to actually maintain the web engine

      Not sure, what the best move currently is…

      • @over_clox
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        119 hours ago

        Am I the only one that still knows how to use Internet Explorer 5 on Windows 3.11?

        That’s not even a joke, it still sorta works, but you’re not gonna log into your bank account with it.