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POLL: Trust in Firefox and Mozilla is Gone - Let's Talk Alternatives.

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POLL: Trust in Firefox and Mozilla is Gone - Let's Talk Alternatives

It’s been a long time coming, but the trust in Firefox and its mother organization, Mozilla, seems to be mostly gone, after a recent commit on the source code removed the “we don’t sell your data” promise, along with a change of Privacy notice and Terms of Use.

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Its the meat in a shit sandwich. If you dont like chrome based stuff, what choice is there.

I hate that this happened, F. Mozilla for this, but its not like I can just dust off netscape or something.

Librewolf while I wait for the enshittification of the internet services to come full circle.
Overblown. And most of the posted alternatives either depend on the Firefox project being alive and well, or they are based on Chromium.
- This is the problem for me and why I just stick with Firefox. There's only really two options and a bunch of sight alterations and reskins of those options. Three options if you use Apple I guess. And a few WiP Linux browsers based on webkit (I think) that haven't actually progressed all that much in a decade, last I checked.
  
  So when the only two options are Google or Mozilla, I've just stuck with Mozilla. I actually am considering moving over to one of the forks now though. Even if it's just to send them a message.
I'm gonna keep asking if people are going to keep posting:

Would you pay a subscription to use Firefox, and if no, what would you propose as a means of sustaining Firefox's professional development budget if they lose Google's Monopoly money?
- I would, if they shit canned paying their CEO so much
- I would, I was about to pay for proton before the ceo posted about liking Trump's team. I realized if I wanted privacy I needed to self host or pay for it. I'm self hosting a lot but email is just better running thru someone else I trust.
- If only my taxes were put toward things we want and need instead of murdering brown people in other countries.
  
  I see a browser as no different than other municipal services.
  
  Public tech funds are an amazing use of tax dollars, I would love it if we had more investment in these systems!
  
  I would like a public email where the same protections physical mail gets are applied with end to end encryption. There are a lot of internet things that should be municipal services.
- A few years ago I would be arguing that everything should just be free.
  
  But now I understand that everybody needs to eat so I’d be happy to pay something for a good browser. But most people are like my former self.
- If they did not prove themselves to be a better browser in terms of privacy, then what is the purpose of their existence?
  
  So would you be willing to pay for a subscription to prevent them from going to an ad-supported business model?
I may be alone in this, buy I don't plan to stop using Firefox in the near future and, despite everything, believe it's not a big deal, at least as of now.
Its a good moment to plug the Servo project: https://servo.org/

It is it's own Web Renderer, independent of any other(eg. Gecko/Blink) Once it matures enough to be daily drivable, I'm planning on making a PoC web browser with it

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