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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Betawhat to c/[email protected]
 

... And damm it feels good! Before starting this step, I had to migrate to a better browser that respects privacy (Brave, because🖕Firefox, I mean Mozilla at this point doesn’t even want you to be safe on the web anymore!) And a better “Google-style” ecosystem (Proton is the best they have an email service, a calendar, a password manager and the holy drive).

The last step was YouTube. How to do without a Google account? Well, thanks to Piped + Yattee, the best combo I had a hard time finding. For those who do not know, Yattee is a great app that is an interface for Piped on Apple devices, besides, do you consider Apple to be respectful of privacy?

In short, today I am the happiest of men.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If that's why you hate firefox, I've got bad news about Brave..

[–] Tangent5280 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Whats wrong with firefox? Why do you feel they dont want you to be safe on the web anymore?

[–] fubbernuckin 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I have no idea what's up with the weird anti-Mozilla attitudes coming out lately. They're still better than basically any other tech corp out there.

[–] Scolding7300 2 points 5 months ago

I think it's because their business model is not straightforward, well I for certain don't understand it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

It's a bit of a dog whistle, I just don't entirely understand for what yet. Basically you're better off not asking and going on with your life.

A charitable answer is, however, that a central source of income for Mozilla is Google paying them to remain their default search engine. Mozilla is hesitant to truly attack Google, as it would be biting the hand that feeds it.

More importantly though, Mozilla has a female chairwoman. A lot of tech savvy people would rather stick with Brave, whose CEO they can relate to.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

More importantly though, Mozilla has a female chairwoman. A lot of tech savvy people would rather stick with Brave, whose CEO they can relate to.

Woaw... If that's a thing, I really feel sorry for them :/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yikes, that last paragraph.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I find it hard to believe anyone can have such an incredibly clairvoyant understanding of the tech industry that they manage to see Mozilla as an evil megacorporation, yet at the same time failing to see any fundamental problem with Brave.

It could be a lot of things going on other than just sexism, but I cannot help but feel like any time a woman takes the lead in an open source organization a bunch of often vague but always hateful discourse follows in open source forums. Most people are of course fine, but a toxic minority will usually manage to get some weird discourse going that spreads to anyone taking whatever they spew on face value.

Often it can be hard to distinguish valid criticism from less than valid criticism, and in the case of big organizations there is always valid critiques to be made, so I don't blame people all that much for falling for it. Still, being a happy user of both GNOME and Mozilla products for more than a decade, it tickles me just how much hatred these projects receive online.

That's my five cents anyway.

[–] OnePhoenix 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you don't think Mozilla cares about your privacy anymore, yet you use Qwant, you're probably not going to want to hear that the two partnered up last month.

I've been using Startpage with positive results.

There's also hardened Firefox solutions.

I second Proton... I love 'em. I use them for email and VPN. I always have a hard time putting all my eggs in one basket though, and try to avoid using any one ecosystem for all my organization. For example, I use an offline app for my calendar, and a self-hosted home solution for file management.

Great to see another person giving the one finger salute to big tech. Not sure about your ideas on Apple respecting your privacy though - they haven't given me that impression but maybe I'm misinformed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

mozilla private derivatives such as librewolf on the desktop and mull on android I just fine. So FF keeps being relevant as not being a derivative from chromium/chrome, it can remain apart from google disabling adds removing extensions.

So yes, FF is food to thrive, and so its derivatives will...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Everyone here is so negative. Congrats on deleting Google!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Congratulations on leaving Google, personally I still have an account but I never log in, it's for those rare occasions when I need it... I would say though the tricky part isn't leaving, it's staying outside forever, I have convinced some people of leaving FB and even Instagram but they couldn't resist the temptation and went back, they told me they felt bored because they had so much free time... 😐..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

What!? People don't like free time? ;)

[–] mypasswordis1234 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

do you consider Apple to be respectful of privacy?

Please read about the iOS 17.5 bug. It's very interesting and should clear up any doubts you have in terms of "Apple privacy".

If you don't want to bother looking, you can click hereIn short - the iOS 17.5 update has started restoring people's old photos that they permanently "deleted" from their device and iCloud. Some even had photos of previous device owners restored. A Redditor's record shows photos restored from 10 years ago.