Good article. That standards page linked is itself almost an advertisement for why people shouldn’t use chrome or let google have the web.
Currently all browsers depend on Google, some because they use Google APIs, others because they are financed by Google advertising companies, such as Alphabet and Nest. Yes also Firefox. Opera also adds other trackers, belonging to Chinese companies and also uses Facebook trackers. Brave blocks all these, except for the affiliated sponsor companies with its crypto reward system, among these also Facebook.
In the end, it is irrelevant which browser is used, while the practice of surveillance advertising, which these companies use to traffic in user data, which practically all American browser companies do, whether OpenSource or not.
The normal user must orient himself to the TOS and PP of the browser he uses, which no one does. If it did, many would be surprised and often not pleasant.
FOSS is good for developers and practical for companies, but the user has other rights and needs that are often forgotten in favor of a certain company. While trafficking with the user’s private data, violating their basic rights, even putting their security at risk, there will not be a free internet, but a market for personal data.
No one would tolerate in real life, that the postman opens your letters and reads them, before putting it in your mailbox or that the plumber who fixes your drain, makes a list of your belongings and looking in your documents.
It doesn’t matter to me if BigBrother uses Blink, WebKit or Gecko, to me it annoys the BigBrother and the network that has become his private property, turning it into a shopping center with the user as merchandise.
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Users have every right in the world to be developers and to use whatever they like. But they have even more right that their privacy, security and is not treated as merchandise, trafficking with their private data.
No one can control what these Advertising Companies do with your data, or that they don’t sell it to others. It is not the first and last time that hundreds of thousands of sensitive user data, including banking and medical data, have been leaked.
While the phrase ‘Your privacy is very important to us’ with which the PP of Google, Facebook and also of Mozilla begins is only understandable ironically when you’r reading the rest, there is no free internet and neither for the devs.
https://www.bansurveillanceadvertising.com
https://consumerfed.org/consumer_info/factsheet-surveillance-advertising-what-is-it/
https://www.businessinsider.com/big-tech-private-data-facebook-google-apple-europe-eu-2021-1
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/364840/duckduckgo-vivaldi-others-call-for-ban-on-surve.html *
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etc.
Why did you frown at ‘user’?
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Well, I would extend FF to all derivative browsers, particularly those oriented to privacy, like Librewolf on the desktop and Mull on Android. Their in essence their FF counterparts with privacy settings applied, and removing binary blobs (yes FF still include some)… But I guess those are even less known than FF itself, :(, though overall, they depend on FF being maintained and progressing, since those projects don’t develop a browser one their own…
Yeah, anything that’s not based on Chromium is good to use in my opinion.
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For the last few months we have been working with a team from Meta (formerly Facebook) on a new proposal that aims to enable conversion measurement – or attribution – for advertising called Interoperable Private Attribution, or IPA
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/privacy-preserving-attribution-for-advertising/
Tell me who you’re with and I’m saying who you are
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Having 60 tabs open currently in my Firefox on Android that’s pretty big news to me.
It’s fun that eventually you get to [∞] tabs on Firefox android. Doesn’t skip a beat on the 5 year old mid-range phones I’m using.
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No issues here…
(My mum’s using it on a phone that we bought first-hand for like $80, more than five years ago.)
Maybe you’re thinking of Firefox Focus? That didn’t support tabs in its very early days.
Proper Android Firefox is probably the best mobile browser for handling lots of tabs.
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