• randomaccount43543@lemmy.world
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    Guys, if you don’t like these proposals from Google, you need to switch to Firefox now! It’s the only way to defend freedom on the web!

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      Over 85% of Mozilla’s income comes from their Google search deal. Google is keeping Mozilla alive to prevent antitrust issues. If Mozilla rocks the boat too much, Google will fund a more obedient alternative.

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        So your answer to “Google is evil use another browser” is… if we all swap to Firefox google will kill it?

        Google is keeping Firefox alive because 5% of all web users using Google search by default is pretty useful for them.

        If you want to avoid that, simply use firefox and set your search to DuckDuckGo/Bing. If Google drops them, Microsoft have already shown a want to step up into that position.

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      About 5 years too late but appriciated still.

      People just don’t listen or care. They click on chrome because it’s recommended by their daddy Google.

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      Why are you pushing Firefox when Vivaldi did the work of writing this article and Vivaldi has consistently been pro-user, pro privacy, and anti-google even while using Chromium as their backbone. Viva Vivaldi.

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        Using any chromium fork is supporting chromium as the default browser, and choosing gecko-based browsers means you throw your hat in the ring to show websites that not just chromium browsers visit them. Using a chromium fork also means you accept that google will dictate standards less harmful than web integrity. While it’s not the end of the world, the last time this happened IE9 happened. Using Firefox means google can’t simply decide to implement any spec they want and that spec becomes true because all user agents have it (exactly what is at risk of happening here. Vivaldi may make nice blog posts but if this ends up happening they’ll be happy to implement it else risk losing their entire user base)

        The would have been an argument to be made about performance but nowadays blink and gecko are pretty much at the same performance level.

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          Using a chromium fork also means you accept that google will dictate standards less harmful than web integrity.

          Are these condescending statements how you intend to get people to switch to Firefox?

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        Because it’s better to support a diversity of web render engines instead to avoid a situation like back in the days with IE.

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        I have used Vivaldi and even led my kid to use it, but I still always go back to Firefox and/or LibreWolf for peace of mind and extensions like uBlock Origin and Anesidora.