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kevwil commented on Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google mozillapetition.com/... · Posted by u/notpushkin

frontfor · 6 months ago

Agreed. A world where Mozilla ceases to exist due to lack of funding is arguably worse than the current state.

kevwil · 6 months ago

Agreed. Mozilla has problems, but bleeding funds from Google to fund their competition has a satisfaction factor. I'd rather sign a petition to keep the Google daddy fund going until the very end.

kevwil commented on Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google mozillapetition.com/... · Posted by u/notpushkin

iteratethis · 6 months ago

We need to be honest about what value Firefox really has left.

Commercially, it's completely irrelevant. On big websites it doesn't even show up in the top 10 browsers and it's almost entirely absent on mobile. Site owners can readily ignore Firefox.

Firefox is no longer a developer default. I'm sure some of us in our bubble have strong personal preferences but the entire dev ecosystem is chrome-based. Very advanced devtools, Google having a team of "evangelists", course material is Chrome-based, test-automation, etc. So developers too can ignore Firefox.

Some argue that it's good to have an independent rendering engine. Here too Firefox plays no role at all. The only counter force to Google's web feature roadmap is Apple/Webkit, not Mozilla.

From a privacy preserving perspective, Firefox has no unique value. Install Brave, say no to the one-time crypto pop-up, and you have a very decent and fast browser that also consistently renders along with Chrome and Edge.

I use Firefox. If I ask myself why, it's muscle memory and because uBlock Origin still works.

kevwil · 6 months ago

> Some argue that it's good to have an independent rendering engine. Here too Firefox plays no role at all. The only counter force to Google's web feature roadmap is Apple/Webkit, not Mozilla.

I'd like to understand this point better. Does Firefox use the Chromium engine under the hood?

kevwil commented on Emotional support across adulthood: A 60-year study of men’s social networks psypost.org/men-lose-half... · Posted by u/clockworksoul

kevwil · 7 months ago

Imagine having someone, anyone, that you felt comfortable sharing your feelings with. Amazing.

I've known my best friend for 50 years now, literally since kindergarten. One person. I probably wouldn't talk about my top 5% of private feelings with him, not sure why. I've been married 28 years now. She doesn't understand me at all, and doesn't want to see or hear any "weakness" from me. So what the f@#$ is an emotional support network? Science fiction, I'd say.

kevwil commented on Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO danluu.com/ballmer/... · Posted by u/greggyb

kevwil · 10 months ago

Yikes. The hottest of takes there. Wow. I know he's super-rich now and I'm not, so whatever.

kevwil commented on Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over thebignewsletter.com/p/ju... · Posted by u/eatonphil

kevwil · a year ago

Whatever this means, I hope it means less censorship. That's all my feeble brain can focus on here: free speech good, censorship bad. :)

kevwil commented on Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users brave.com/blog/related-we... · Posted by u/NayamAmarshe

Filligree · a year ago

Safari. That's the only browser I really use.

kevwil · a year ago

With the massive tide of browsers converting to Chromium under the hood, I wonder how long Apple can hold out. Fingers crossed they keep allocating budget for it.

kevwil commented on Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users brave.com/blog/related-we... · Posted by u/NayamAmarshe

JonChesterfield · a year ago

Shed a tear for the Firefox that could have been

kevwil · a year ago

I'm concerned that if Google ever stopped paying Mozilla to be the default search engine in Firefox, Mozilla would not be able to afford continued development on Firefox.

kevwil commented on Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users brave.com/blog/related-we... · Posted by u/NayamAmarshe

topspin · a year ago

Brave is a Chromium derivative, not Chrome. Can't imagine why any of this would imply they would need to stop deriving Chromium: they can develop and deploy whatever cookie policies and defaults they want.

kevwil · a year ago

Not to disagree with you specifically, but this seems a good context to make this point:

Maybe I missed the memo that we stopped hating monopolies? Every browser worth considering, except Firefox and Safari, is based on Chromium. Firefox and Safari make up about 20% global market share, meaning Chromium in about 80% [0]. A bug in Chromium is a bug in all of them. A backdoor in Chromium is a backdoor in all of them. A feature of Chromium, good or __bad__, is a feature in all of them. It baffles me that this isn't a bigger concern to more people.

[0] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

kevwil commented on Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users brave.com/blog/related-we... · Posted by u/NayamAmarshe

immibis · a year ago

Firefox will either support this or your favorite websites won't work so you'll switch to Chrome so they do work.

kevwil · a year ago

Or start limiting Internet usage.

kevwil commented on Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users brave.com/blog/related-we... · Posted by u/NayamAmarshe

rectang · a year ago

Firefox is still working great for me, and I intend to keep using it for the foreseeable future.

I don't know what it might take for people to migrate away from Chrome en masse, but the alternative is there.

kevwil · a year ago

Firefox is usually great for me, but with Chromium-based browsers having such a massive market share monopoly I do occasionally find a website that doesn't work properly on Firefox. But, I will stick with Firefox as long as possible.