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submitted 11 months ago by Gamers_mate@beehaw.org to c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

With the writing on the wall with firefoxes own version of "don't be evil" being removed I was curious what people on beehaw were switching to.

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[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 10 points 11 months ago

sticking with regular Firefox for now. Mozilla is making some dumb decisions lately, for damn sure, but none that make me question using the browser without any "services", yet

[-] millie@beehaw.org 10 points 11 months ago

It sounds like they just swapped out a more colloquial phrasing for a more careful legal phrasing that they were required to have in order to function normally. It doesn't sound as though anything's changing at the moment.

[-] Gamers_mate@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

If that's the case it probably would have been better to add the legal phrasing onto it without removing the original phrasing. I am happy to continue using firefox as long as they don't break their promise.

[-] remington@beehaw.org 9 points 11 months ago

If after the dust settles and Mozilla continues down that road, then I'll switch to Zen.

[-] Gamers_mate@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago

Nice I will have to give Zen a try.

[-] jherazob@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

Isn't it another Chromium-based browser?

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Zen is a Firefox fork

[-] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 7 points 11 months ago

Regular FF is fantastic. Idiots jump all over the FUD bait every single time. It's truly pathetic.

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

There is baseless FUD, and there is reasonable loss of trust. This one seems to have a reasonable explanation, but actions will speak louder. We'll see.

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago

Librewolf for a couple of years now

[-] user1942@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

Will the changes in the privacy policy not affect LibreWolf users, who are logged in to their Firefox account on LW? 🤔

[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

The changes to how account data is processed will effect anyone who logs in with their account. If you want to avoid changes, you cannot use a FF account.

[-] user1942@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

Are you using LW without a logged in Firefox account?

[-] Umbrias@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

i sure am. firefox has accounts?? huh?

[-] TemporalSoup@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

The accounts do automatic bookmark syncing and stuff

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

I am. Why do i wanna log into my browser? Bookmark syncing isnt something i personally need much

[-] Gamers_mate@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

Whats librewolf like? I think I tried waterfox once but still prefered firefox.

[-] Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

I probably don't count as Firefox is not my main browser, but I'm a very happy Vivaldi user. It's Chrome-based but comes with a great built-in (optional) ad and tracking blocker already, has tons of customisation features and makes it easy to disable all things Google (permanently, even).

[-] Gamers_mate@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

Chromium based competition is still better than no competition even though I am trying to avoid anything chrome based.

[-] Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

I share your sentiment towards a Chrome hegemony, and I tried to use Firefox as my main browser a few times in the past. It's just that Vivaldi feels way more polished to me out-of-the-box. Some of the things probably just need some getting used to, but you know what they say about old habits...

[-] murmelade@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

You can't teach them to sit.

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