I switched to brave anyway.
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2024
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Firefox; being open source as it is; is not in danger.
lets fucking gooooo down with Booble!!
3,2,1... more spyware coming to Firefox.
If it's visible, that's not spying, dum-dum.
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Mozillas mo' problems
Mozilla co's problems
I suppose it's time to fork Firefox. Can call the fork "Netscape Navigator". Ya, I think that has a nice ring to it.
I miss watching the little moon spin with the shooting stars of Netscape Navigator. It's weirdly the most nostalgic thing for me. Maybe because my first full memory ever is the library computers and learning how to use Netscape in first grade. It's the first time I started really retaining information fully, aside from snippets of Oregon Trail for the Commodore 64 in my kindergarten class.
Penalize Google many much monies and use some of those to endow a trust that gives yearly funding distributions.
Simple.
When I heard the news, my first though was a mix of "Oh. oh no..", "yay! no vendor-lock-in", and "OH, NO."
My expectation for the future is that a crowd fundraiser like on Wikipedia (does anyone remember those?) will be on the way for Mozilla... there is no way they can survive a 80% drop in the budget gracefully.
Coming soon: [Firefox - Mozilla Ads Edition]
Revenue of Mozilla Corporation. Not Mozilla Foundation.
If tech giants such as Google cannot be broken up, then their services should be required to be compatible and all data exportable to competitors. See the EFFʼs “Competitive Compatibility” concept. Buy a movie off Google's YouTube but Google misbehaves? It must be exportable to a market competitor that you do support. Don't like how Google handles your email? You should be able to switch your email address to a competitor just like you can change phone companies without losing your phone number.
Basically, if the US Federal government cannot discipline monopolies by breaking them up directly, they should break up the moats and walled gardens the monopolies built to keep customers locked in to maintain their monopolies. See Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow.
It's likely if other browsers collapse they could rule chrome a monopoly too
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