How Mozilla Ruined Firefox
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Firefox used to be on top of the world with almost a third of all internet users using Firefox. These days, they make up a pitiful 2.7% of the market share. ...

Actually pretty good video.

  • Search engine
  • Google location service instead of their own (which they quit)
  • FakeSpot & Pocket collecting crazy personalized data

Also info about difference between Mozilla Corporation and MZLA Nonprofit.

If you donate to Mozilla, nothing goes to Firefox. Instead they host petitions and beg big tech companies to be more transparent.

They dont focus on old users at all, and it seems they are unable to implement basic stuff.

I still recommend using Firefox, but with the Arkenfox userJS.

Or just use Librewolf.

Firefox is not usable. And dont donate to Mozilla I guess.

  • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
    121·
    9 months ago

    Go to hell Mozilla. I couldn’t care less if your browser fails at this point.

    I share this sentiment to some point. Mozilla taking millions from Google, and making it difficult for users to DeGoogle or remove the sponsored shortcuts from their Firefox browser. But hard forking Firefox will not be a light weight task for a new project to take on for a long time. I hope the stronger pushing of ads by Google in the Chrome/Chromium browser will make some more people switch back to Firefox.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOP
      41·
      9 months ago

      I dont think Mozilla makes degoogling hard. It is very easy to keep track of the changes and simply flip some switches.

      But it is of course ironic that their product is useless.

      People used Firefox because Internet Explorer sucked. Now they get ads for Chrome everywhere, have Android and whatnot devices, and Edge is working okay.

      People are using devices as appliances, they dont expect needing to repair something they bought new.

      • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        9 months ago

        I dont think Mozilla makes degoogling hard. It is very easy to keep track of the changes and simply flip some switches.

        Some switched ? Have you checked all the connections a Firefox browser makes ? In case you didn’t know Mozilla push notifications is hosted on a Google server.

        • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOP
          8·
          9 months ago

          Arkenfox, Librewolf, Torbrowser, MullvadBrowser.

          Those switches. It is not easy but it is possible, unlike on Chromium, where after applying even policies it constantly pings Google.

    • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
      27·
      9 months ago

      But hard forking Firefox will not be a light weight task for a new project to take on for a long time.

      This is why I’m not hoping for a fork. I’m hoping for the old to die and a new one to be reborn from the ashes of the old one. Mozilla must die in order for Firefox to become great again.

      Maybe the firefox developers don’t know where to go to, or it would be inconvenient for them to leave. Maybe they just need a new home at a new foundation, that makes it easy and compelling for them to switch. But the death of Mozilla would be a very compelling reason for them to switch.

      Anti Commercial-AI license

      • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        Maybe the firefox developers don’t know where to go to, or it would be inconvenient for them to leave. Maybe they just need a new home at a new foundation, that makes it easy and compelling for them to switch. But the death of Mozilla would be a very compelling reason for them to switch.

        I sincerely hope you’re right, and we’ll see a new and truly privacy friendly Firefox, and the decay of Google Chrome.