i fear mozilla may be in the line here, finally giving-in to google on manifest 3's limitations, web 'drm', and targeted ads program, in exchange for keeping the lights on (google is their single biggest source of funding via payment for being default search).

[–] tuxrandom@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm honestly astonished that Google hasn't pulled the plug on Mozilla yet. After all, their missions completely and utterly oppose each other and Mozilla probably causes the biggest losses to Google.

If your prediction comes true, which isn't unlikely, Firefox forks that already exist would probably take its spot. Or privacy friendly Chromium based browsers. I know, the latter sounds like an oxymoron, but they exist and one of them I would be hated on for naming has actually been proven to have better out of the box privacy than Firefox.

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem with privacy-friendly Chromium is that no one is building a mobile counterpart.

[–] yukichigai@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mozilla's mobile version of Firefox supports desktop extensions. It's not inherently privacy friendly but you can make it that way.

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah but chromium..

[–] ironveil@eviltoast.org 2 points 1 year ago

But if Mozilla goes, Google are setting themselves up for a hell of a lawsuit, since the only cross-device browser would be Chrome (and it's children)

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