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.

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOP
    31·
    8 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·
      8 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
        7·
        8 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.