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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by 0xffff2 on Friday May 26, 2023 @02:18PM (#36087808)
Their website really doesn't tell me anything I want to know about a new browser. Most importantly, is it Chromium based?
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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by gen220 on Friday May 26, 2023 @03:07PM (#36088361)
Yep, Chromium.
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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by 0xffff2 on Friday May 26, 2023 @06:50PM (#36090388)
I know it's incredibly hard to build a browser engine, but any browser build in chromium is just giving Google more market share, which is a hard pass for me.
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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by gen220 on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @11:56AM (#36126375)
Agreed that it'd be nice to have a less ethically-ambiguous alternative.

Since you seem to be pretty knowledgeable in this space, are you aware of any competitive FOSS engines and/or browsers built around those engines?

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