Anthony, you might find it worthwhile to investigate the Brave browser (brave.com <http://brave.com/>) to see if it fills the bill.
Dan > On Oct 8, 2021, at 10:49 AM, Anthony Carrico <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here is a old blog post entitled, "Don't abandon Mozilla Firefox just yet": > https://blog.jeaye.com/2017/12/16/firefox/ > > The cancer that started with selling the search engine slot, expanded > when they purchased Pocket, has now become a plan to sell advertising in > the location bar. Mozilla has completed its transformation into a full > blown advertising agency, and they have never even asked me for a > donation (since the for-profit era of Netscape Navigator). > > I've been trying to give Mozilla slack for years, but there isn't even > an option to give feedback anymore. Look how they got out ahead of the > negative feed back this time, immediately terminating the debate with > "This is a bug tracker, not a discussion forum (open 1 day ago / closed > 1 day ago)" This from Mozilla who literally /invented/ the notion of > tracking software issues with public discussion forums when they > produced Bugzilla. > > Obviously it was a mistake to cut them so much slack instead of backing > the projects growing up in the weeds. What other adware is allowed in > the primary repository of the Linux distributions? I suspect Firefox > would be kicked if there were viable alternatives. Can anyone point me > to a browser project for Linux (and if possible Android) that is not > controlled by a totalitarian state (Opera) or an advertising agency > (Firefox, Chromium)? Is there a serious project (under MPL, or better > MIT, BSD, etc.) which can gain momentum if we (desperate) users are > willing to make the donations? > > -- > Anthony Carrico
