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Not a good look for Firefox. Third partners and device fingerprinting clearly mentioned in the documents.

The move is the latest development in a series of shifts Mozilla has undergone over the past year.

The gecko engine and Firefox forks, such as Tor, Mullvad, Librewolf, and Arkenfox, are stables of private, open source web browsing.

In fact, Mozilla's is one of the few browser engines out there, in a protocol-heavy industry that many say only corporate or well-funded non-profits can reliably develop.

What is more, daily driving the more hardened-for-privacy Firefox derivatives can be frowned upon by many sites, including your bank and workplace.

Mozilla's enshittification leaves the open source community without a good alternative to Firefox, after years of promoting it as a privacy-friendly alternative to spyware-cum-browser Chrome.

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[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 day ago (3 children)

People are saying it is Bad News

So, uhh, you want to tell us who is saying it's bad news?

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 day ago

gestures vaguely in a direction

Ehh, people, you know?

[–] joe@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago

I have the feeling people are overreacting to anything Mozilla does these days, just to have an excuse to talk people into using (politically?) worse browsers.

[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Your mastodon feed might be different that mine, lmao

https://mastodon.social/tags/mozilla

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Can you be more specific than pointing in a vague direction?