• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    This behavior is just beyond batshit. Before anyone decides tl;dr, the article is well worth a read.

    I had a hunch that Opera was circling the drain when I started seeing them sponsor Youtubers. A general rule of thumb is that no company that has anything worth a shit devolves to sponsoring Youtube videos. I had no idea about the predatory loans thing, or the crypto scam chasing thing, or the ripping off ChatGPT thing…

    Back here in reality, there is no reason anyone should be using any other browser than Firefox. There is one organization left in this arena still devoted to protecting privacy, maintaining open standards, and a fair and open web for all. And it ain’t Google, it ain’t Microsoft, and it ain’t Opera.

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      10 months ago

      And it’s always been Firefox since day one. Out of the ashes of Netscape Navigator rose Firefox and Mozilla have been one of the only bastions of the free and open web ever since. I honestly don’t understand why anyone would use another browser.

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          10 months ago

          Actually it’s an effective cloud-based password manager that doesn’t rely on local storage or weird plugins or backups.

          That’s what keeps me using chrome. I could lose everything in a house fire, pick up any device, log in and have access to all my stuff without any further action on my part, right out of the box.

          That’s the only feature I care about, and chrome is the only browser I’ve seen that provides it.

          Get me that in firefox, and I’ll switch today.

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            10 months ago

            What are you talking about? Firefox has had literally Sync since before Chrome existed.

            Firefox Sync initial release: December 21, 2007

            Google Chrome intial release: September 2, 2008 (Beta), (1.0) December 11, 2008

            A full year, my guy.

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        Cuz Firefox was for a long time just some shiiiiiiit. It was overloaded, blocky, seemed outdated etc., so ie wasn’t any worse. When chrome came, whooo.

        Now tho, I am simply still prejudiced against it. And I found Edge suits me ideally so I don’t care for any other browser. Until my adblock stops working, then I’ll run.

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      10 months ago

      I do not agree with your generalisation of YouTube sponsorships, but with the rest I absolutely agree with.

      Honestly, I read something about Opera being vaguely connected to shady Chinese companies right before I started recommending ppl to switch away from Opera or Opera GX. Glad I stuck to that, looks like my intuition did not fail me.

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        9 months ago

        You, uh, really feel that the likes of Raid: Shadow Legends, Nord VPN, Honey by PayPal, Raycons, and HelloFresh are really making a positive contribution to the world that we can’t do without?

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          I mean, what’s the problem with NordVPN? Pretty much every youtuber I respect who does sponsorship promotes it, and I’ve never heard anything bad about it. Generalizing like that is always bad (or well, mostly always, or ironically I would be generalizing).

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      9 months ago

      there is no reason anyone should be using any other browser than Firefox.

      Yeah. And everybody should use the same brand of shoes, drive the same model of car, buy at the same store, eat the same food…

      God forbids people having different tastes, opinions and needs.

      There is one organization left in this arena still devoted to protecting privacy, maintaining open standards, and a fair and open web for all. And it ain’t Google, it ain’t Microsoft, and it ain’t Opera.

      Yeah, and it’s not Mozilla either.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah, and it’s not Mozilla either.

        Which one do you think it is, then? Genuinely curious here. I don’t disagree with on most of what you said - I find the simping for Mozilla (and sneering towards chromium) here in Lemmy rather annoying. Mozilla and its browser both have shortcomings as well, and choosing a web browser these days is, as most things in life, choosing the lesser of evils vs. one’s own needs.

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          Which one do you think it is, then? Genuinely curious here.

          I simply don’t assume that an org/com actually exist which is concerned users’ privacy. Mozilla just follows the money, as any other corp.

          Protecting my privacy is a task I prefer to delegate to mybrain(.org).