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Is Firefox still the recommended browser of choice here? (mander.xyz)

submitted 2 days ago by Mothra@mander.xyz to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Asking after the privacy debacle and manifest. I'm not keeping up closely, but iirc Firefox is the browser recommended because of Ublock. After the privacy data issue I've noticed broken trust from Firefox users, recommendations in favor of switching browsers, and predictions saying Firefox is going downhill fast and that their forks won't be maintained for much longer.

So I'm here asking the seasoned sailors' thoughts, aye. Is this just a storm passing by or are you really considering jumping ship?

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[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 2 days ago

I like LibreWolf, it's a privacy and security focused fork of Firefox.

But I'm really looking forward to Servo, hopefully it becomes usable one day.

[-] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

Servo and Ladybird both look like the future of the web.

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

I'm skeptical about Ladybird, that's why I have such high hopes for Servo

[-] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br -3 points 1 day ago

I doubt that would be the case for Ladybird if the devs keep being how they are.

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Can we stop acting like he raised a Nazi salute or something? Denying a PR that only changes minor stuff like pronouns by a not known contributor is well within the rights of a maintainer. Just because he did not communicate it well doesn't make him or the project transphob

[-] Ilandar@lemm.ee 2 points 12 hours ago

It's way less egregious than the Brave co-founder making donations in support anti-gay marriage amendments, and even that has been massively overblown (the real reasons to avoid Brave are a) Chromium, b) shady crypto stuff and c) its financial incentives as a for-profit company with investor backing to compromise on its claimed ethical principles). I'm getting so sick of these purity tests on completely irrelevant and unrelated issues standing in the way of genuine alternatives to big tech. People are so eager to let perfect be the enemy of good.

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

For real. People can't stop sucking Metas dick, despite them facilitating actual genocides, eroding our society and using your socil life as a means of profit, but god forbid the maintainer of a project is not nice enough

[-] jetsetdorito@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Can you link to more info on this

[-] psyspoop@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It stems back to a PR from the SerenityOS project where someone changed a "he" to a "they" in the documentation and the PR was declined for "personal politics"

Here's an article about it: https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/

It does leave out this response by Kling on Twitter: