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So it seems that went ahead and just re-enabled these terrible settings

That's 1 strike for the fox.. One more and it's out

Maybe i should build my own browser and not made of Chromium crap (no offense)

@collectifission Eerste keer dat ik dit zie.. Echt what daa fack

@stux Ach, als ze daardoor wat minder afhankelijk zouden zijn van Google's geld... Maar dat is niet echt zo helaas.

@collectifission @stux Destijds dan denk ik niet opgevallen, of het toen zonder na te denken disabled zonder echt verder te kijken omdat ik hoe dan ook een bloedhekel heb aan rotzooi op mijn scherm wat ik niet nodig heb.

Dirty Little secret most people don't know is that most web browsers are either written by Google (via chromium), or substantially supported by funding from Google to keep the search engine as Google.

One of the immediate outcomes of the recent antitrust suit against Google for this practice is therefore going to be that many web browsers are scrambling for new sources of revenue.

But I will say, when you realize just how much revenue Firefox has been earning, it seems like they should be more than capable of maintaining a web browser and email client forever based on money they should have in the bank...
@sj_zero @stux

> But I will say, when you realize just how much revenue Firefox has been earning, it seems like they should be more than capable of maintaining a web browser and email client forever based on money they should have in the bank...

But if Mozilla spends all its money on software development, then who's going to do all that questionable political activism that nobody asked for? :blobcat-sad:

@stux It’s called their business model.

@aral Doesn't mean I have to like it? :flan_laugh:

@aral @stux how realistic is to start a project to write a (real) GNU browser from scratch?

@stux I know that the whole advertisement thing in Firefox is not great.
But honestly, it's still my favourite browser and I want its development to be sustainable.

So I also think that they should experiment with income streams to achieve that.

Thus I'm personally fine if I see stuff like Adidas on the start page as long as it is ethical stuff and I still have the possibility to remove it.

@alexanderadam For sure but it's more about the edit of settings after an update

That makes me lose trust

@stux I understand that and I'm not saying that the current experiments are great.
But apparently nobody has come up with a way of making it sustainable yet.

@stux @alexanderadam how did you update anyway? How was it packaged?

@stux@mstdn.social Je kan dit uitzetten in de settings (gelukkig!)

Maar staat nog helemaal los van het feit, dat dit lichtelijk irritant...

@me Klopt 😉 maar het ziet er naar uit dat FF het weer heeft aangezet na de update 😮

@stux@mstdn.social Yeah... Na de update naar 131?

Ik weet niet of dat een bewuste actie is geweest of dat toevallig de settings key voor die optie hernoemd is, waardoor de default waarde van true ingeladen is... Maar gelukkig is Firefox opensource, dus het zou inzichtelijk moeten zijn
😉

@stux
Post google-funing-less firefox...

@stux@mstdn.social Yeah it's shit, you gotta untick the "sponsored shortcuts" thing here (on the settings button). Yes, this should come disabled by default. I guess you could just fork it and make it default but it sounds like more work than just unticking this xd

@stux I had the same, in settings I disabled sponsord links and those ads are gone.

@rik @stux That's good, but apparently Mozilla re-enabled the setting in an update.

@Rob_T_Firefly That sucks, so every new update you have to disable it again. @stux

@stux One of the many settings I just turned off in the new VM I built.

@devlogic Did something change?

I did not 😮

@stux Oh wait, I just read your alt text. Those got re-enabled on an UPDATE? WTF.

@funguy2playwith @stux That setting has a nasty habit of turning itself back on with future updates. I know this because it's the first setting I reach to disable! Sigh. For shame, Mozilla.

@stux moziller has fucked up so many times, i don't even trust them anymore. Currently i'm using Zen. Not the best in my opinion, but much better than using firefox.

@stux oh dear, that's bad behaviour 😢. Was it an update that reenabled it?

@stux At this point Firefox is on life support until something changes. I'm truly sorry that this has happened to Firefox. They are up against huge odds.

@stux I Switched to @Waterfox But I'm makeing a browser.

@stux you would call it meow meow browser, right?

@stux weird, i just updated and that box was not re-checked for me.

@stux i am switching to zen-browser.app/ its open source and basedoin Firefox with tones of bice features. (Vertical tabs, compact mode, split browsing)

zen-browser.appZen BrowserBeautifully designed, privacy-focused, and packed with features.

@stux ok, I'm underplaying the netscape connection.

@stux I gave up on Firefox long ago as I think it unsafe.

@stux Oh good, so you can disable this.

I noticed this recently too, I guess it got enabled on the latest Firefox update.

@sibrosan @stux which update was that? I'm on 130.0 and mine hasn't defaulted back (yet).

I'm assuming it was the OPs active choice to stick with Google for search.

@stux Where do you see this? Because I don't... 🤔

And which version is it?

And where are you going to migrate? Yet another chrome-base browser? 🤔

@stux gitlab.gnome.org/world/navigat is a really great option, but no web extension support as of yet. If not you can go for zen, floorp, or librewolf

GitLabWorld / Navigator · GitLabExplore the web

@QuadRadical @stux
LibreWolf is nice. WaterFox is my personal fav tho.

@hackillu Servo? Probably, is still pre-alpha.

@stux

There's the browser Ladybird in development, and also the web engine @servo
In development.

@arutaz @servo ooh thanks! interesting!