Ok, I get that writing a browser rendering engine is "hard". But Jesus do we need more, better options. And full-featured ones. Not just Gecko and WebKit.
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A long time ago, I liked Mozilla.
Today, I'm not even sure they haven't fucked up 'about:mozilla' along with everything else.
And they're still the best option.
If my options are:
- An ad company that at least makes some effort to protect privacy
Or
- Ad companies that seem almost cartoonishly evil
I’d like to give #1 a shot, plz.
The benefit of the doubt logic here Is as follows:
Mozilla thinks that the ad supported model of the web is essential to continuing to function.
Mozilla knows that the vast majority of installs have an adblocker installed.
In order to keep the ecosystem healthy they’re exploring ethical advertising options.
Counterpoint:
The vast majority of their income comes from the largest advertising company in the world - alphabet.
They need to be seen to at least make some efforts to not murder the advertising model through their mere existence while not pissing off the community too much.
Why does Mozilla Firefox need ads, unless they are possibly prepping up their own search engine? Remember, the CEO once said they wanted to start prioritizing on making money. A search engine, built by Mozilla on the Firefox browser would be perfect, with ads for them.
edit. Another thing, If Mozilla puts ads in Firefox, I believe it would be as easy as just switching to another fork that restricts Mozilla's tracking.
Now if you do, do this. Make sure the fork you go with tries to update as close to the latest Firefox updates as possible, such as security updates for the browser.
Mozilla gets hundreds of millions a year to have G**gle as its default search engine. They are not making one of their own unless they are prepared to drop that income, which they are not.
They could inject the ads into the websites or simply have them as a sidebar, I guess. Either way, zero tolerance stands.
We desperately need another browser that isn't built upon Blink, Gecko, or Webkit, and not written in the CVE generator C++. They are all shamelessly taking advantage of their power.