Pourquoi Firefox est sous perfusion financière de Google

Je l'ignorais totalement, et ce que j'ai lu dans l'article n'est pas rassurant. :/

#internet #web #navigateurs #Firefox

Pourquoi Firefox est sous perfusion financière de Google - ZDNET

De moins en moins de gens utilisent ce navigateur web autrefois très populaire. Pourtant Mozilla reste rentable grâce à Google. Mais pour combien de temps ?

^{Guillaume Serries (ZDNET)}

https://lifehacker.com/tech/why-you-should-disable-firefox-privacy-preserving-ad-measurements
https://blog.zgp.org/turn-off-advertising-features-in-firefox/

Firefox for Android info:
https://exquisite.social/@thomholwerda/112795429303595558

#Firefox #mozilla #meme #tech

Thom, HP-UX™ evangelist

2024-07-16 09:21:02

In case you're using Firefox on mobile - so myself and like four others - disabling Firefox' new Facebook data collection feature is quite a bit harder than on desktop, but it can be done:

1. Go to chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml
2. Use the search field to find the entry for aboutConfig and enable it
3. Go to about:config
4. Search for dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled and set it to false

Done. This only works on Android, because Firefox on iOS is just a Safari skin.

uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist

A huge blocklist of sites (~950) that contain #AI generated content, for the purposes of cleaning image search engines (Google Search, DuckDuckGo, and Bing) with uBlock Origin or uBlacklist.

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

For #Firefox & #Chrome etc.

GitHub - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist: A huge blocklist of sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist.

A huge blocklist of sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

^GitHub

Mozilla leadership
(in ref to https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/113153943609185249 )

#comic #firefox #mozilla

So that's that: Firefox is now the only useful browser in the world.

Meanwhile, Google controls nearly the entire web browser market, far more than Microsoft ever did at the height of the original browser wars.

Using Chromium based products makes you less safe.

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/browsing/google-pulls-the-plug-on-ublock-origin

edit: to flesh this out a bit more, here is gorhill's FAQ for UBOL https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-asked-questions-(FAQ)

#chrome #chromium #manifestv3 #firefox

Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads

Google ramps up its campaign against ad blockers on Chrome.

^{Kevin Okemwa (Windows Central)}

Ever found modern fancy scrollbars in #Firefox inaccessible?

about:config and:

widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled → false

keeps them fully visible while not however.

widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override

can be used to make them thicker (I've set 24).

#accessibility

Im not using #friendica, but #DarkReader on #firefox, cool to read, that other one use DarkReader.

So thats not totally nerdy, to use DarkReader.

Hmm... this is kinda gross @mozilla... Why does this #firefox feature even exist and why did you enable it by default?

#alpinelinux

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/15827

[RFC] Disabling "thought-provoking stories" on Firefox new tab (#15827) · Issues · alpine / aports · GitLab

Firefox 125.0 seems to introduce "exceptional content curated by the Firefox family" on the new tab:

^GitLab

Dear @mozilla
Please, please, please put the RSS indicator back in Firefox.

People need to know about this technology which empowers users over greedy, controlling corporations.

Update: As many have pointed out, you *can* use @thunderbird as an RSS feed reader, and there are many #firefox add-ons to restore the RSS indicator (one of which I'm already using). But my point is that Firefox needs to lean into RSS as an answer to all the crap that is the modern web, and help educate users about it

Mozilla Firefox :firefox:

Desktop
📥⁠https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

Android Play Store
📥⁠https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox

iOS App Store
📥⁠https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-private-safe-browser/id989804926

Tor Browser :tor:

Desktop
📥⁠https://www.torproject.org/download/

Android Play Store
📥⁠https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.torbrowser

Fdroid Repo
📥⁠https://support.torproject.org/tormobile/tormobile-7/

iOS App Store (try OnionBrowser)
📥⁠https://onionbrowser.com/

#Firefox #Mozilla #TorBrowser #Tor #Browser #Privacy

Firefox - Protect your life online with privacy-first products

Firefox is more than a browser. Learn more about Firefox products that handle your data with respect and are built for privacy anywhere you go online.

^Mozilla

#Mozilla asks for donations to reach half of their CEO's yearly salary, while people are getting laid off. Seems to me that the solution is simple.

[edit] Okay, this has gotten a lot of buzz, and I'm happy people respectfully weighed in with arguments and counterarguments. I'm not giving up on #Mozilla and #FireFox, nor on other initiatives for a better web. I am, however, going to be muting this now.

Firefox survey

When using Firefox which of the following do you do?

See Esther's post for article about Firefox being at only 2.2% use per Google Analytics for US government sites:

https://mastodon.social/@estherschindler@hachyderm.io/111536411958417952

Feel free to boost for visibility

#Firefox #InternetPrivacy #WebPrivacy #DigitalPrivacy #GoogleAnalytics #InherentlyBoostable

• use a DNS blackhole to block Google Analytics (31%, 49 votes)
• use browser add on to block Google Analytics, ad b (86%, 133 votes)
• don't block Google Analytics in any way (4%, 7 votes)
• Pepper&Carrot ( see results w/o participating ) (5%, 8 votes)

Hey, maybe the good #Google folks at web.dev can write an article about how the #Firefox slow-down trick on YouTube works so other sites can implement it too.

https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/17z8hsz/youtube_has_started_to_artificially_slow_down/

#google #web #dev #firefox #antitrust #surveillanceCapitalism #siliconValley #assholes

!Friendica Support
Also in der #friendica 2023-09RC scheint sich hier noch ein Bug eingeschlichen zu haben.
Ich verwende da #FireFox auf #Linux Basis.

Kann das jemand bestätigen?

#Google: Here’s a new and easy way for you to share your browsing interests with advertisers.

#Firefox: *rolls out a TLS extension to hide the websites you visit from your ISP and anyone else sniffing your traffic*

See the difference? Choose wisely.

#privacy #googleChrome

LibreWolf: Custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security & freedom
https://librewolf.net
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37431474

* HN discussion of some interest: back and forth ... mainly regarding forks and trust vs. companies (Mozilla; others) and trust ... [transparency ...]

LibreWolf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreWolf
* free OS web browser; fork of Firefox w. emphasis on privacy & security

#WebBrowsers #OpenSource #Firefox #LibreWolf #privacy #surveillance #Linux #Mozilla

"Did any user in the world want a user tracking and ad platform baked directly into their browser? Probably not, but this is Google, and they control Chrome, and this probably still won't make people switch to Firefox."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

I stick to #Firefox

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.

^{Ars Technica}

If you’re switching to #Firefox, remember Firefox is not private by default. Consider the #LibreWolf fork, which is. Otherwise, go into your settings and adjust its tracking features (like having #Google as the default search engine), turn off telemetry, “experiments”, etc.

(Also, if you all switch and Google goes bankrupt, #Mozilla will go bankrupt too because they exist thanks to half a billion dollars a year from Google. So remember Google must survive for Mozilla to survive.)

#chrome

Since I've seen a lot of chatter about people switching to #Firefox as Google ramps up the enshitification of #Chrome, let me tell you about a killer feature for people who (a) need multiple accounts on the same websites (eg. devs) or specifically (b) have to use multiple Google accounts.

Firefox has an official addon called Multi Account Containers that lets you trivially set up color coded tabs that have separate sets of cookies. Log into your dev account in one, and your test account in another. Log into your personal #gmail in one and have another tab next to it with your work Gmail. I'm actually not signed in to any Google accounts in most my tabs, I just have containers for the specific tasks I do on Google products.

It'll take you 30 seconds to set up.

Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Mozilla's explanation: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

Firefox Multi-Account Containers – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Firefox Multi-Account Containers for Firefox. Firefox Multi-Account Containers lets you keep parts of your online life separated into color-coded tabs.

^{addons.mozilla.org}