- cross-posted to:
- firefox@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- firefox@lemmy.ml
In light of Mozilla’s recent policy changes, we no longer feel assured that Firefox aligns with our commitment to protect your privacy. This prompted us to revisit the choice of default web browser in Zorin OS 17.3.
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one of the worst distros ever so I guess this is pretty obvious choice and telling to some.
“Mozilla has a bit been shady lately, so we are making the difficult decision to change our default browser to something significantly more shady. We are confident our users will feel safer knowing their data is in even worse hands than before"
the everyday linux distro that is famous for asking people for money for their pro version, cause they know most of the userbase is coming from windows and doesnt know that everything is free?
Brave hates gays
Brave marketing has gone crazy to convince people it’s less dodgy than Firefox. Come on!
How is brave the lesser of those two evils?
Chromium is more secure, so if you add privacy tweaks, it is arguably better: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html#jit-hardening
(Btw I use Firefox)
While the company has a questionable record and a controversial business model, Brave Browser is an open-source browser with good privacy features.
You could replace “Brave Browser” with Firefox and the statement would still be true.
At least Firefox wasn’t caught hijacking affiliate links.
Something ive actually wondered is if firefox is hurting for money so bad why doesnt it allow a toggle where a user can willingly just turn every purchase via the browser into a firefox affiliate link? If the user is approving it and its not a shady forced thing i see no issue with it, and it would generate plenty of revenue without needing to be beholden to ad companies or google. It’d be like allowing users to donate, without actually costing them any extra money, everytime they make an online purchase.
Instead of thinking up new ways for them to make money, maybe think why they’ve got money issues.
Maybe it’s got something to do with the different CEOs doubling their multi-milion salaries every few years.
Or maybe their numerous idiotic acquisitions like the pocket.
Or maybe they’re super strapped for cash because they moved their fuckhead of a CEO to AI development.
I love FF, but fuck Mozilla and everything it represents.
Also, fun stats from the moz corp wiki:
- Revenue in 2023: $653 million
- Software development expenses in 2023: $260 million
- Total expenses in 2023: $496 million
Yeah i mean true if its just an issue with their org then thats a different case. I do think that sort of money making model would work well though so maybe it could be used to fund a new browser.
Will it be legal? Recently honey extension was caught doing this, though without user consent.
Even with user consent, would businesses work with firefox affiliate if it is not actually attracting sales, but taking a portion of sales, and thus reducing profit, just because the sale is made through the browser?
Firefox tried “privacy friendly ad” but that has also received community backslash because it turns users into products and doing anything like that would make their profit engine go boom and exploit private data. Wouldn’t the similar backslash also apply in affiliated sales?
The way i see it if its opt in theres no issue. This would be something that wouldn’t happen unless you manually turned it on.
Is privacyguides wrong?
https://www.pcmag.com/news/brave-browser-caught-redirecting-users-through-affiliate-links
I’m not going to defend Mozilla by any means, but if you care about privacy, you wouldn’t use a browser based on Chrome anyway.
I’m actually not familiar with this distro. But if I installed a Linux distro, and it had brave installed. I would immediately switch.
Seems like a strange choice. If anything i would’ve expected them to just use a firefox fork or something.
Zen is literally the best browser around right now, I do understand the UI isn’t for everybody but if you vibe with it, it rocks
That’s a clown makeup moment for Zorin OS
talk about bad taste
Recent firefox policy change is controversial, but how brave is better?
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Boo
The distro sucks anyway. They ship really fucking old packages, even more so than Debian or other stable distros.
It is marketed as direct windows replacement, so it appears they choose absolute safety, over possible breakage. If that GRID product they tout ever launches it will be great for companies.
…Except there are three players in that game already. Go by the names of Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu
We see SUSE and REL at corps and enterprises, not so much Ubuntu. None offer something like GRID though. Central management tool for Admins to deploy all systems equally from central location, with dashboard view, without having to run scripts or autoYAST to keep systems the same
Ubuntu is deployed all over the place for data science.
I’m fairly sure this is because data scientists got used to running it on their personal machines and can’t be bothered to learn another distro.
Ubuntu made Linux easily accessible to anyone, so you are probably right.
For the enterprise stuff we work with only REL and SUSE are certified to install on, and work with the software. OpenSUSE works too because of the shared binaries with SUSE
Y not gnome web
