Technology

No worries, play store-recaptcha is coming for you too!

Yep, sorry but not sorry. Advertisements aren’t safe. The industry has been ruined by bad actors and it’s a shame, but also not my problem.

God I hope Ladybird will work. I'm so done with Google. And the fact that Firefox is dependant on their money leaves a bad aftertaste, everytime I open a browser. Even though I use Zen.

Fingers crossed for Ladybird and a stable Alpha release in 2026 🤞

In all sadness, folks on Lemi and other more technically inclined forums infight even more than leftists infight, and all they do is sabotage themselves.

Projects like Firefox are mountains above Chrome when it comes to privacy and not ceding web control over to Google. Yet any thread about anything Firefox is doing is just filled with FUD from people complaining about small individual changes or Firefox not being perfect enough, so on and so forth.

It's self-sabotage. If you didn't think Firefox is good enough, congratulations. Now you've got Chrome, and pretty soon you won't have Firefox.

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Firefox is partially in this position because the community really does not support Firefox. Every decision Firefox makes or Mozilla makes in an attempt to try and claw back their financial freedom away from Google, the community dumpsters them on. Then, on posts like this, the community turns around and dumpsters Firefox for being so financially dependent on Google.

FireFox was and is an awesome project, but unfortunately, without the financial backing of a large for-profit business, they cannot keep up with Chrome. Even then, FireFox, with an engineering team a quarter the size of Chrome's, still manages to keep up, which is a god damn miracle.

Developing a browser that is fast, actually works with new web standards, stays up to date, and is adding features is incredibly difficult. It is a stupidly expensive endeavor, similar to the level of effort necessary for operating systems.

And unfortunately, there is no Linux equivalent for web browsers, at least not right now. There are some up-and-coming projects, but it's going to be decades before they reach the level of maturity necessary to start competing against Chrome. At which point there may be so much standards capture that some of these browsers may find it impossible to actually catch up.

From my memory of their financials, they actually get enough donations for the browser. The issue is the for profit companies fetish for a million different side quests.

Google doesn't even need to get their hands dirty like that. IMO all they need to do is continue making it difficult for companies to support Firefox when designing their websites. That, in addition to making sure companies know that Google is tirelessly working to make sure Chrome won't work with ad blockers is going to eventually kill Firefox completely.

For real though. I had the thought earlier today of how I could reduce my internet usage to text only and try and skip all the bullshit. Might be tough but I'm not seeing another way. At least I'd still be able to access things like Wikipedia.

Between AI killing the idea of "believe what you can see" and ads/tracking being forced on every part of the internet, the end is very, very near.

And it should upset everyone, because the internet was not designed for this. We (the people) ultimately paid to develop what is being taken over by corpos for profit.

Don't use brave, Peter Thiel funded that

Helium is a Chromium based browser that will still support ad blockers, whose devs (unlile the CEO of Brave) seem like good peeps - https://helium.computer/

Besides Librewolf, Waterfox is also a good Firefox/Gecko basd option - https://waterfox.com/

Or Firefox.