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Brave is just a reskinned Chrome anyway. Even Chromium has built in telemetry.
Firefox is the only independent browser. Even Edge is Chrome these days.
We need to support Firefox. Unfortunately it's dying more and more every year
Isn't Safari independent?
Well essentially there are 3 browsers. Chrome / Firefox / Safari. Everything is a version of these three (besides niche browsers, like I think KDE might have their own browser)
What I mean by independent is Firefox is the only one not owned by a massive international corporation. I would say the only open source one but Chromium is technically open source.
You can for example download "ungoogled chromium" which is a Chromium fork that removes the Google telemetry
How is Apple "independent"? You're just trading one mega corporation for another.
It's not Chromium specifically, but it has basically the same issues.
Yeah, funded by google seems pretty independent to me...
They only get money from google to be the default Engine (which you can change easily)
In terms of development and the program of Firefox itself, google has no input or say…thus Firefox still being independent
When 430 out of your 450m annual income comes from google you'd be naive to think they have no say at all. In a perfect world maybe.
Time will tell. We'll see what firefox does when chrome drops manifest v2.
So far they don’t seem too keen on bending the knee
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23559234/firefox-manifest-v3-content-ad-blocker
Which is good for us
Brave said the same. Lets see who puts their money where their mouth is. I hope both.
Yeah that’s why I was still using brave (until now)
Honestly it’s a relief to break away from chromium
I used to work for Mozilla. They are funded my many sources, of which Google is only one. Google does not drive Firefox's feature set or roadmap in any way at all.