I know we have our complaints about the browser, but I liked this one :)

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    1 day ago

    I’d prefer less ads, less budget for the CEO and less shady AI and crap opted in by default.

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        18 hours ago

        Waterfox didn’t come out of thin air, though. It still needs Firefox to provide an updated browser code so they can do their changes. I doubt they could handle a full browser standalone on their own.

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          17 hours ago

          Oh yeah. But, they rip out all the ai. I’ll stick with that until Firefox makes it impossible (which they almost certainly will).

          I’ll move on after that.

          An LLM in my browser is completely unnecessary and actively useless

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        21 hours ago

        I also think some outreach is important, especially if they can get that through memes instead of paying Facebook/Google.

        Having more people using Firefox instead of Google chrome is a good thing. If nothing else, websites will have more of an incentive to make sure websites work on non-chromium browsers.

        And hey, if a few of those new users donate to the project, they can be less reliant on Google and sponsored content

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      How about no AI and crap opted-in by default? Seriously, Vivaldi is great for my needs, and I haven’t had any problems using ublock origin and other ad blocking extensions with it.