Grab some popcorn, get a nice drink, and sit down, guys gals and non binary pals, because oh boyyyyyy, have I got a story for you.

Section one: """"private"""" advertising. Modzilla decided to incredibly stupid recently, you wanna know how? They added checks notes """"privacy"""" preserving advertising in their browser, which is the exact same thing that brave has got hate for, for obvious reasons.

Privacy cannot be achieved while advertisements are being shoved down our throats. This theory, that ads can be privacy friendly, is what corporations want us to believe and it is a disgusting view that goes against the very reality we find ourselves living in.

Direction to an advertiser isn't privacy friendly, as the advertisers themselves are not. Why is Modzilla adding advertisements to Firefox? Because they are getting desperate. They want to make sure that their big daddy CEO gets millions while we have to put up with the the bullshit that we all moved away from Chrome because of.

Section two: a telemetry and moral nightmare, teaming up with zionist bastards. Firefox turns on telemetry by default that goes straight back to Google. Guess what Google is doing about the war in Gaza right now? Funding it, the genocide of innocent people and making sure they are being killed. By allowing this telemetry we are thereby allowing Google to make money off of it and as such: Israel, the worst enemy of anyone with common sense, money.

Section three: teaming up with vladdy daddy (vladimir putin). You heard me right. Firefox is teaming up with the Russian Federation to stop people from forming their own opinion on the Ukraine war, therefore proving that they are extremely pro censorship. They've already stated before that they're willing to collaborate with western shills, but this is just the cherry on top of the cake.

Section four: the mortal enemy of the revolution must be avoided. Modzilla is a corporation, corporations are the enemy of the revolution. Modzilla abuses their developers and they have been found bullying disabled people behind closed doors. If we want a revolution to happen, then the least we can do is avoid the companies with blood on their hands, and like it or not, Modzilla is one of them.

Section five: what should I use instead? Glad you asked, if it isn't already obvious, I personally recommend only one browser: Librewolf. For a DeGoogled android operating system, I recommend you use Vandium, it's a browser made by the people over at the GrapheneOS project and it's amazing. For iOS? You aren't private, but I would recommend using Snowhaze.

Section six: wait, what does Modzilla have to do with politics? Ironically, a lot of things. They perhaps unintentionally, but still do fund the zionist project, by aiding Google. They are an extremely disgusting company that has hopped on the AI trend that silicon valley has adopted. They are joining Chrome in becoming a monopoly in themselves, and Modzilla is a corporation that has major donations from some of the most evil companies in the world.

Regardless of this negative rant, I hope you enjoyed the post, and please consider using another browser since it will be much better for you!

Sources (Beware of trackers! Nothing I can do about that unfortunately :(( ): https://www.heise.de/en/news/For-advertising-Firefox-now-collects-user-data-by-default-9801345.html https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution https://miloslav.website/blog/2020/10/26/firefox-privacy/

  • RION [she/her]
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    4 months ago

    Some counterpoints:

    1. Turn it off in the settings. It's shitty that it's on by default, but you can turn it off and not worry about it again.

    2. See Above

    3. ??? Point taken, they shouldn't be doing this but phrased very weirdly

    4. Point taken, but worth noting that Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit that owns the nominally for-profit Mozilla Corporation, although they claim to reinvest all profits made back into their projects. Make of that what you will.

    5. Librewolf is good for desktop. Vanadium is currently unavailable outside GrapheneOS unless you build it yourself, and even still it will lack critical security features outside GrapheneOS. Privacyguides recommends specially configured Brave and Mull for Android, although Chromium browsers like the former are actually preferred due to site isolation. Bromite Cromite is also thrown around as another Chromium based option.

    6. I'd push back against this a guilt-by-association a little. In 2022, 81% of Mozilla Corp's revenue came from Google. They are basically being held hostage and propped up by Google so no one gets any ideas about coming after them for browser monopoly.

    Also what's the deal with "Modzilla"? is this a "Micro$$$oft WinBlow$$$" type thing I'm not FOSSist-Maoist enough to understand?

    • Luna [she/her, sae/saer]
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      4 months ago

      Just coming here (interrupting) to say that Bromite is no longer receiving updates. For a browser similar to Bromite, Cromite is a great option. Additionally, those who can't use Vanadium always have Mulch (by Divest OS dev) as an option, it uses as much as it can from the Vanadium code and makes it available to all android devices.

      • RION [she/her]
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        4 months ago

        ya I meant to list the maintained fork but got the names mixed up blob-no-thoughts

      • PurpleCreation [they/them]
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        4 months ago

        Although I personally believe that GrapheneOS reigns supreme as the best android rom out there, I can understand why others would use for example CalyxOS. But remember buckos, make sure to check the privacy policy of all applications before using them! Open source browsers are the best, and always will be.

    • PurpleCreation [they/them]
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      4 months ago

      Ok, counter points to your counter points:

      1. We shouldn't have to. Advertising as a browser as being privacy friendly means it should be like that by default, and there is no way to verify if firefox is still collecting telemetry without checking the source code (and I don't think anyone will waste their time doing that).
      2. No comment needed.
      3. I phrased it weirdly because it is weird, plus I just hate censorship in general so I'm going to shit on it as much as humanly possible.
      4. Incorrect, the CEO has a giant paycheck of millions which could go into building firefox itself, and yet he wonders why the project is so desperate.
      5. Recommending Brave is absolutely vile, please never do that again. If you can't use Vanadium then take a look at one of the many browsers on the F-Droid app store.
      6. This is an opinionated statement of mine and I won't bother trying to change yours, I just don't like my hands with blood on them, it's dirty.

      Little extra: me calling mozilla "modzilla" was just a minor spelling mistake, no need to worry about that.

      • RION [she/her]
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        4 months ago

        Yeah, we shouldn't have to disable stuff, but we can, and unless it starts verifiably turning itself back on I don't mind a whole lot. I mean, I still mind, but not a dealbreaker.

        Did look up the CEO's compensation and it is grotesque. Technically that's not considered profit and so they are abiding by their pledge but definitely shitty.

        ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I get Brave has some ick associated with it but PrivacyGuides has been around for a while and has a pretty robust set of criteria for recommendations, so I'm inclined to trust them a bit. Frankly I have a hard time trusting random projects on F-Droid that haven't seen a lot of vetting and will be harder to troubleshoot/get support with due to smaller userbases. Also, in my cursory glance a lot of the browsers I saw were quite out of date, which is its own issue.