Re:Why Bother with uBlock Being Blocked in Chrome? Time to S...
by account42 on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @07:05AM
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If only that were true.
> Then there's the fact that Edge is just Microsoft's spyware, being worse in my book than Google's Chrome. And people forget that Microsoft is also an advertising company. Even if that's not their main revenue source, they also hate your ad-blockers.
People forget that Mozilla is also almost exclusively funded by the advertisement industry. They have also experimented with including ads directly in the browser on multiple occasions. Including ones force pushed though a back door (experiments).
> And in true Microsoft spirit, it also has telemetry, which you can't turn off.
While you can turn of Telemetry in Firefox it is on by default and new channels are being added all the time which are again on by default.
Mozilla is controlled opposition with the emphasis being on controlled with opposition being more of a formality.
> Then there's the fact that Edge is just Microsoft's spyware, being worse in my book than Google's Chrome. And people forget that Microsoft is also an advertising company. Even if that's not their main revenue source, they also hate your ad-blockers.
People forget that Mozilla is also almost exclusively funded by the advertisement industry. They have also experimented with including ads directly in the browser on multiple occasions. Including ones force pushed though a back door (experiments).
> And in true Microsoft spirit, it also has telemetry, which you can't turn off.
While you can turn of Telemetry in Firefox it is on by default and new channels are being added all the time which are again on by default.
Mozilla is controlled opposition with the emphasis being on controlled with opposition being more of a formality.