Firefox. Shouldn’t need introduction.
Yes there are forks that may be better to use but let us not forget the one main browser family who’s been giving us a chance at fighting against Malware browsers with zero respect for our privacy.
Good write up. I agree with several points
And it pains me too that everything is damn electron. Can we please go back to writing stuff that doesn’t require that?
I don’t mind an old style interface. Hell, in many cases I’ll welcome it with open arms. Modern UI is not necessarily better. Both tech wise and also style wise.
You purchase the book written 30 years ago. It still is as it was 30 years ago. The writer is dead.
Tomorrow Amazon decides some terms don’t conform to today’s society and changes the book you already purchased, changes the text. Without the writer’s or anyone else’s permission. Maybe even if the writer is not dead, who knows.
If you had bought a device you control or the physical book, you’d have kept the original thing you purchased.
The day after Trump has a Trump moment and decides you should only read the Bible. Amazon removes the book from your device. Maybe you’re refunded, maybe not, but you have no book.
You cannot read books from open formats with it but only Kindle’s. Possibly you cannot add books to it, only read books purchased from Amazon (I think they still allow you to add books via USB but maybe tomorrow you have a “surprise firmware update”).
Disclaimer : I don’t know your device, your habits, your values, or how to jailbreak it. I’m not telling you you should jailbreak it.
I’m giving you arguments for, from now on, try to purchase things that don’t lock you in, that give you as much control as possible, and if you have no such choice, try to limit their ability to control you and / or minimize your risk of losses however you can.
This one hits hard for me. I too, watched many of his content. I partially watched his last stream. Little did I know it would be the last.
You are loved.
Thank you for the warning and source. I think I had read about this. Personally I use IronFox on Android, but Firefox otherwise.
Even if we take this at worst case scenario, it is a much lesser evil than Google in my opinion. And they still open source everything (I think?) and as far as I’m aware allow 100% configuration to remove or tweak anything we don’t like one way or another.
More recently I was also not happy with their introduction of AI crap in the browser which can also be disabled.
It would be better to be disabled by default and even better not to be present, yes, but well…
As long as it does not get too out of hand and as long as they keep it open so anyone con remove that crap from forks and/or through configuration… Given our choices, I think they deserve recognition for their work. Even if we don’t agree with everything they do.
I never donated for them and used Firefox for over 20 years. Even if it goes downhill really fast starting now (Which I hope it won’t, and the future would suddenly turn much bleaker in this regard), I think I should be thankful for 20+ years of good service.
I never switched away from Firefox except for 2-3 of its forks on Android. And Librewolf as non main browser on pc.
I’m also keeping an eye on ladybird but not keeping my hopes up yet.
All that being said, your concerns are valid and I do share them. I just want to reinforce that when all is said and done… No matter what the future looks like…
They were here for us for at least 20 years.