"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
  • Paradox@lemdro.idEnglish
    138·
    4 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
      81·
      4 months ago

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

    • Feyd@programming.devEnglish
      11·
      4 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?