By an amusing coincidence, I've also switched to LibreWolf today... from Chrome, because they finally managed to kill uBlock. So I guess I've managed to skip the whole Mozilla debacle.
From the time I started thinking about it around the date of jwz's "Mozilla is an advertising company now" post, it took me 8 months to fully switch to librewolf. I feel like a windows user who was slow to move to linux.
@kbal@fedia.io Ideally, we wouldn't have needed to move. But capitalist dipshits always find a way to make us do things that inconvenience us out of necessity.
These are the alternatives I’ve picked so far …Ios = Snowhaze, linux mint os = pale moon, and windows = waterfox. I use librewolf also but it’s default of delete everything and sign you out of sign ins isn’t useful for every scenario.
@Coldgoron@lemm.ee It took a while, and I hate that it enforces light themes because somehow default dark themes make surfing less secure 🙄
But after forcing myself to use it, I have more or less set everything up for the future success. And not having to go through the settings removing Google search from default is already worth the hassle.
Not less secure per se, but less anonymous. Default dark mode reports your preference to websites and analytics, so it ends up being something that makes you different.
Same reason privacy browsers use a default resolution and won’t let you stretch websites bigger if you have a huge monitor, keeping a border instead…
The idea is to devalue tracking attempts by making the results a big nothing burger of more of the same. A herd of clones.