"No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers" proclaims the Firefox homepage, but that's no longer true in Firefox 128. Less than a month after acquiring the AdTech company Anonym, Mozilla has added special software co-authored by Meta and built for the advertising industry directly to the latest release
  • @fin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    19•2 months ago

    99% of their users are not these things

    I don’t think so. People using Firefox are freaking evangelists trying to spread privacy. And if Firefox should lose those people, it will truly be the end

      • ParadoxEnglish
        5•2 months ago

        And these days, privacy is basically the only appeal of Firefox. It’s slower than chrome or webkit based browsers, hangs out with Safari in terms of standards support, and can’t hold a candle to either other browser when it comes to battery life. Why mozilla seems determined to throw that all away is beyond me

        • @ParetoOptimalDevEnglish
          7•2 months ago

          The last time I looked at performance and energy benchmarks Firefox was winning.

        • @Feyd@programming.devEnglish
          0•2 months ago

          It’s slower than chrome or webkit based browsers, hangs out with Safari in terms of standards support, and can’t hold a candle to either other browser when it comes to battery life.

          Sources?