@[email protected] to [email protected]English • edit-21 month agoWhich browser do you use and why?message-square247fedilinkarrow-up1182
arrow-up1182message-squareWhich browser do you use and why?@[email protected] to [email protected]English • edit-21 month agomessage-square247fedilink
Using firefox but concerned now Read about some alternatives: ARC not OSS and VC funded, NO. Waterfox, FOSS Librewolf, FOSS Zen, FOSS but is just a skin?? Ladybird, FOSS Orion? Arctic Fox Mullvad Edit 2/28: It seems there is no general consensus if we should switch and/or to what.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoDepends on which way the Firefox ditchers jump - jumping to Chrome, yeah… not great. Jumping to more privacy respecting options… it’s your data, you should be able to choose (if you care…)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 month agoRead the post above mine… “Privacy respecting options” are almost always downstream forks of firefox. Abandon/kill the source, and downstream dries up
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoUsing a downstream fork only kills the source if the source is funding itself by spying on you.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•27 days agoI suspect Tor Browser would fork and soldier on if Firefox became an unsuitable base.
Depends on which way the Firefox ditchers jump - jumping to Chrome, yeah… not great. Jumping to more privacy respecting options… it’s your data, you should be able to choose (if you care…)
Read the post above mine… “Privacy respecting options” are almost always downstream forks of firefox. Abandon/kill the source, and downstream dries up
Using a downstream fork only kills the source if the source is funding itself by spying on you.
I suspect Tor Browser would fork and soldier on if Firefox became an unsuitable base.