And since you won’t be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility.

The community feedback is… interesting to say the least.

  • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.mlEnglish
    422·
    1 year ago

    Mozilla is not good, but they are the lesser evil of the two, considering Google is known as being:

    • NSA partner and collecting data and spy on users in googolplex capacity

    • AI used by US military for drone bombing in foreign countries based on metadata Google collects on smartphones (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-project-maven-drone-warfare-artificial-intelligence)

    • use dark patterns in their software to make users accept their TOS to spy

    • repeated lies about how their data collection works claiming anonymity

    • forcing users to use their Play Services which is spyware and scareware

    • monopolising the web and internet via AMP, FLOC and now DRM proposal

    • use of non standard web browser libraries and known attempts to cripple lone standing ethical competitors like Firefox and Gecko web engine (now with Microsoft making their default Edge Chromium-based too)

    Moreover, Firefox’s UI is incomparably superior to that of Chrome, even without considering the infinite userchrome.css customisations. The fact that you can have a dedicated search box, extensions movable and a download list button on the toolbar makes Firefox incomparable.

    • lohrun@fediverse.booEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      That’s just how it goes now it seems, we just have to go with the lesser of the evils for everything. Sure there is FOSS for some stuff but even then FOSS has its fair share of issues

      • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.mlEnglish
        33·
        1 year ago

        LineageOS, Pixel Experience, Paranoid Android, Evolution X, ArrowOS, Xiaomi.EU, AOSiP/Derpfest, HavocOS, Pixel Extended, POSP (Potato Open Sauce Project), Corvus OS, Syberia Project, MSM-Xtended

    • Engywuck@lemmy.mlEnglish
      116·
      1 year ago

      Moreover, Firefox’s UI is incomparably superior to that of Chrome.

      No. It’s crap. Utter crap.

      without considering the infinite userchrome.css customisations.

      “Unsupported” and surely an incentive for less tech-savvy people to look elewhere. But whatever. I’ won’t bother to reply to anything else, as you’re statistically one of these persons that spend their life watching crappy youtube videos and buying shit on Amazon.