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Android is now warning of Firefox sharing data (lemmy.world)
submitted 20 hours ago by hr_ to c/technology
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Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.

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[–] cley_faye 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Frankly speaking, calling out Google and Chrome, then moving to Firefox while Mozilla have been doing it's best Google impression for years now is not that great of a plan.

I wonder how long Firefox will be ok with all that, since Mozilla bought that advertisement business a while ago.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

The main problem is that building a web browser is extremely difficult and everyone else uses Google's version of WebKit. So there's no alternatives: it's either Google or Mozilla. Forks don't count because if some functionality that end users need is deprecated, nobody will maintain it and it will just disappear once it's removed from the main codebase

[–] voodooattack 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Hopefully Servo will change that

[–] cley_faye 5 points 4 hours ago

Yes, I agree. That's why I'm weirded out by people saying "Firefox bad, use Librewolf" and the like.

I still think a solution that relies on donation (maybe with some corporate support) would be very good for everyone involved. Unfortunately, Mozilla is not a player in this, so we're stuck with basically three engines, one that can't be used, one that's openly hostile, and one that's becoming hostile.

Not great.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

building a web browser is extremely difficult and everyone else uses Google's version of WebKit

To be fair it is based on KHTML. One of projects KDE can spend that extra money on and resurrect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Bring back Konqueror too while at it!

Edit: Apparently it still exists, it just isn't the default on any mainstream distros anymore

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Saying KHTML = WebKit is like saying a sponge is a killer whale.