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If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now (www.fastcompany.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Frostwolf to c/technology
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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] spoon -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Firefox is the only independent browser

Yeah, funded by google seems pretty independent to me...

[–] noahm 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] nostalgicgamerz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] spoon 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] nostalgicgamerz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] spoon 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brave said the same. Lets see who puts their money where their mouth is. I hope both.

[–] nostalgicgamerz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah that’s why I was still using brave (until now)

Honestly it’s a relief to break away from chromium