[HN Gopher] Is Mozilla Firefox Getting Sketchy?
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Is Mozilla Firefox Getting Sketchy?
Author : adrian_mrd
Score : 38 points
Date : 2021-10-09 18:52 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| nacs wrote:
| After upgrading Firefox, it appears it's on by default on my
| Ubuntu install. Pretty disappointing move from Mozilla.
|
| To turn it off: Goto "Settings" > "Privacy & Security" > "Address
| bar" > "Include occasional sponsored suggestions".
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| Also this setting is ON by default even though I have things like
| the "Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to
| Mozilla" checkbox off.
| tailspin2019 wrote:
| This is a real shame. As a long time Safari user (and Chrome user
| only for web dev) I was about to move over to Firefox this week.
|
| This was driven by wanting to get away from Chrome (Google in
| general) and the appalling UI decisions in the latest Safari,
| which were so terrible I'm lost for words.
|
| Having installed Firefox, I sadly was not impressed with its UI
| either - coming from Safari 14 which is much more elegant in my
| opinion.
|
| And now I've been reading this steady trickle of worrying
| articles over the last week which are just totally putting me
| off.
|
| This is a really sorry state of affairs for web browsers. How do
| we collectively fix this mess....?
| frazbin wrote:
| Mozilla is still a hell of a lot better aligned with my interests
| than Apple or Google. And do we not value browser diversity
| anymore? I understand the irrational fury directed at non profits
| when they're less than perfect but it's kinda embarrassingly self
| defeating when applied to software. The environment we are coding
| in in today was built by companies like Mozilla.
| Shadonototra wrote:
| It was already since a very very long time
|
| People are just waking up, slowly, but a little too late, the
| ship was already sinking since 2010
|
| 3.6% market share only, -0.6% YoY
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| https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
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| 2009 - 2021
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| https://i.imgur.com/Crg4OA8.png
| jeff42069 wrote:
| Sorry what? Regardless of OP if you want to know whether
| something is sketchy or not usage statistics are the most
| worthless metric possible.
| mikl wrote:
| Yeah, Firefox has been going down the tubes for a while,
| suffering under inept management and a bloated organisation,
| whittling Mozilla's endowment away on vanity projects while the
| browser is languishing.
|
| And when they recently saw the need to tighten the belts, they
| fired the people working on core parts of the browser (Servo) as
| well as those working on the crucial browser documentation on
| MDN.
|
| Adding spyware and ads to the browser is just the rotten cherry
| on top of the excrement sundae they expect us to eat.
|
| After using Firefox since it first came out, I recently switched
| to Vivaldi. It's Chromium-based these days, but with much of the
| same configurability and flexibility that I loved about Firefox,
| and the people behind it at least appear to have their hearts in
| the right place.
| sharmin123 wrote:
| Are There Top Signs of a Cheating Lover? What To do Then?:
| https://www.hackerslist.co/are-there-top-signs-of-a-cheating...
| rvz wrote:
| It is what is it is.
|
| Mozilla already admitted it ever since being >80% funded by
| Google. The fact that they could not help staying with Google
| over the years and thought that they could do without them tell
| us that they were compromised on their 'mission' on 'a privacy-
| focused browser' anyway.
|
| Hence that, Mozilla is finished.
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