Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated page

Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by matrix_overload on Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:43PM (#36077905)

Firefox has been going downhill for a while now, so it's not surprising.

That said, if you don't want to use Chrome, a fairly good alternative would be Vivaldi [0] - a surprisingly neat browser created by the ex-founder of Opera. It's based on the Chromium engine, so no weird rendering shenanigans, but at the same time is quite technically capable, with ad blocking, mouse gestures, email client, etc.

[0] https://vivaldi.com/

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by Phrodo_00 on Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:50PM (#36077967)

> It's based on the Chromium engine

Google has enough control over the internet as is, thank you.

I'd really wish there were other gecko browsers now. Epiphany was good but they switched to Webkit.

Edit: Just learned of LibreWolf. Might be looking into migrating over.

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by Snuupy on Thursday May 25, 2023 @08:26PM (#36078251)

I have a saner list of defaults here: https://gist.github.com/Snuupy/6dbb69bf667385db0a530ccb85926...

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by keyboardJones on Thursday May 25, 2023 @08:56PM (#36078474)

There's also Mullvad browser: https://mullvad.net/en/browser

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by em-bee on Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:51PM (#36077976)

we need alternatives that are not based on chromium.

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by charcircuit on Thursday May 25, 2023 @08:02PM (#36078073)

Why? Chromium works well and is easy to extend. It also comes with many security features, includes the latest and greatest standards, has good performance, and is actively maintained.

It lets you focus on creating the best browser possible instead of wasting time working on the parts of the browser engine which aren't relevant to your product.

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by Aeolun on Thursday May 25, 2023 @08:52PM (#36078441)

> is actively maintained

By Google

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by kps on Thursday May 25, 2023 @10:25PM (#36079016)

How do they make money?

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by toyg on Friday May 26, 2023 @02:19AM (#36080697)

Last time I checked, they basically resold aggregated behaviour data.

One day, maybe, someone might finally understand that web browsers have become utilities, and regulate them.

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