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Android is now warning of Firefox sharing data (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.

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[–] 18 points 2 years ago (8 children)

The main problem is that building a web browser is extremely difficult and everyone else uses Google's version of WebKit. So there's no alternatives: it's either Google or Mozilla. Forks don't count because if some functionality that end users need is deprecated, nobody will maintain it and it will just disappear once it's removed from the main codebase

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

    Yes, I agree. That's why I'm weirded out by people saying "Firefox bad, use Librewolf" and the like.

    I still think a solution that relies on donation (maybe with some corporate support) would be very good for everyone involved. Unfortunately, Mozilla is not a player in this, so we're stuck with basically three engines, one that can't be used, one that's openly hostile, and one that's becoming hostile.

    Not great.

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

    building a web browser is extremely difficult and everyone else uses Google's version of WebKit

    To be fair it is based on KHTML. One of projects KDE can spend that extra money on and resurrect.

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