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Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by wizzwizz4 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @08:00AM (#36876255)
Cash that comes from Google. The EFF might start an anti-trust lawsuit, but I don't see Mozilla doing anything of the sort.
Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by nequo on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:34AM (#36878405)
Time to start donating to Mozilla.
Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by paulmd on Thursday July 27, 2023 @02:06AM (#36889531)
Maybe if I donate to American Petroleum Institute I can help tilt their agenda in a more green direction.

Maybe if I donate to NRA-ILA I can tilt their agenda towards gun control.

you’re not going to tilt a think tank against its master, and the point of Mozilla is controlled opposition so google can point out they’re not quite a monopoly.

Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by nequo on Thursday July 27, 2023 @03:02PM (#36898526)
What do you propose as an alternative? Safari?
Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by wizzwizz4 on Friday July 28, 2023 @05:36PM (#36913694)
There are many, many, many web browsers that are not corporate-controlled. Some of my favourites lately are the Argonaut Constellation [0] – mostly because of the interesting technical decisions going in the development (particularly the CSS and the Haskell), but also because Rhapsode is already better than eSpeakNG + AT-SPI2 + Firefox.

There's also the venerable lynx, and elinks (which I reluctantly admit is better than lynx, even if I don't use it much), and Dillo+ [1] (a fork / continuation of Dillo that supports Gopher and Gemini). And could I forget NetSurf, with its graph-y history navigation? And of course, Ladybird, [2] probably the best-funded of the lot.

These are just the ones I've heard of. There are surely dozens more you'd be interested in, and thousands of little hobby projects. Why not try making your own web browser?

[0]: https://argonaut-constellation.org/

[1]: https://github.com/crossbowerbt/dillo-plus

[2]: https://ladybird.dev/