I can think of no greater gift they can give Firefox.
Yes, I know there are better browsers, but Firefox will probably see the biggest bump in users.
Most people don’t care sadly. They will just accept adblock is dead and move on, just as many people accept windows being shit.
They might eventually try to pressure Firefox as well, as google is actually the largest funding contributor to Firefox. I wonder what the Open Source license dictates with the GECKO engine that firefox maintains? Could somebody make a fork and profit off of it or would we be forced to a different browser framework entirely?
It wouldn’t be the first time they screwed over extension developers (see XUL extensions being discontinued)
Firefox and (all I think) of its components are licensed with the MPL 2.0. This means everyone is free to fork it and build their own product with it (free or for profit is not a criteria for FLOSS licenses), given that changes to the forked code must be made publicly available.
They are the primary backer of Firefox. I guarantee they are already pressuring Mozilla to follow suite.
Google’s stated reasons are technical: MV3 is supposedly more secure (for data collection and ad delivery), more performant (for data collection and ads), reduces complexity (to collect your data and serve ads).
There, I fixed it.
MV3 is supposedly more secure (for data collection and ad delivery)
More secure from adblockers too. They’re protecting the ads.
I’d say that your comment was taken out of context but nope, holy shit they are actually saying all of that.
Yeah it’s been a while. That’s why I’m using Firefox among other things.
“It’S fOr YoUr SeCuRiTy!”
I really thought that they already had? Wasn’t that what all the copious copium that Brave Broswer Boys were spreading was all about? The, “no actually I don’t mind that’s it’s chrome based because they have such good Adblock” argument.
lol
lmao even
Why is Proton still on Substack, the Nazi platform?
Of course, wouldn’t be the first fascist-adjacent thing they’ve done…
Is youtube a nazi platform, too? You can find all sorts of nazi bullshit there.
Substack has plenty of good content creators.
Substack, the Nazi platform?
Could you explain what you mean by that?
Thanks.
In any case, that’s not NAZI-ism, but simply late-stage capitalism at work. They have no shame, honor, morality, or genuine human concern… it’s simply about the money, like loads of other places, sadly.
Wait, Proton is a Nazi platform? I’ve only heard twitter be called that.
Not Proton, Substack.
No such thing as a Nazi sympathizer.
