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"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again (blog.privacyguides.org)
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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Honest question, why does the fediverse like firefox so much? This is not a common opinion to have on the internet, but everyone here and on mastodon seems to have it.

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  • [–] 83 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Because otherwise you'd be supporting the Chromium monopoly, and that's the biggest sin imaginable in the Fediverse.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sin? I just want there to be competitors.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Safari user sitting quietly in the corner

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Here's the best part to that. Safari's back end is called WebKit. At one point in time it was considered best in class. It was also the backend for Chrome as well for awhile.

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  • [–] 71 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Because it is FOSS and responsible for many great contributions to apis that make the web what it is. It has history that goes way back. It has been decently transparent, certainly when compared to its closest competitors. It isn’t Google. It has a massive library of extensions. They aren’t planning to deprecate manifest v2.

    Don’t get me wrong, I also like other browsers and I’m looking forward to seeing what comes from the servo reboot. But Firefox is bread and butter and there is often drummed up nonsense about it.

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