Posted by DemiGuru 16 hours ago
Brave is relying on a fork that takes advantage of the fact that the webRequest API is still technically there
This isn't such an outrageous assumption to make here.
You're just spreading FUD unless you have evidence that Brave funnels usage data in secret.
https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b...
But at least with Brave, the initial funding information was made public, so there's already more information available to users in comparison with Mozilla. Mozilla just said: "there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners" - that could mean literally anyone.
Chromium is detestable. In whatever form it takes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/1unhtxu/initial...
They've literally been caught MITMing web pages for their own financial gains.
Lol, they chose to ship parts of their browser as extensions, it's definitely now "random extensions".
> and blocking uBlock Origin from working on, for example, the Firefox extension site
Any other example? Bypassing an extension on their own website has absolutely no link to the browser itself being a malware, this is ridiculous.
I don't even use Firefox and I think Mozilla is a shit organization misusing its funds to pursue bad ventures lately, but even I think your claims are bullshit.
But also, be Mozilla: decimate your own plugin ecosystem, kill half of plugins, force to rewrite the other 50%. But a few years later support this 1 extension, and people will remember that you're a good guy.
When they've adoped Chrome plugins, they've effectively gave up their shares of relevance to Chrome and now they're paying for it.
The 'newer' Manifest V3 replaced the V2 webRequest API with a more limited declarativeNetRequest API.
The original allowed the intercept and blocking of network requests in real-time as generated, the replacement allows a limited subset of filter blocking after requests have been sent and returned.
ie: V2 allowed for less network traffic and greater amount of filtering, V3 provides slower page completes and limited filtering.
The argument against was always that it's "too hard to keep a fork in sync". Now it's easier.
My point is that when MV3 was announced there was an assumption that maintaining a Chromium fork to continue supporting MV2 would be too much work and too expensive. But now with LLMs that's no longer a safe assumption. The non-Chrome chromium based browsers can fork chromium and add back MV2. No need for any expiration date.
We should prepare for a future without Firefox, because one day it won't be there anymore.
I love Firefox.
We need more browsers like Firefox - more open source, more open to standards that improve the web, that can improve our browsing experience.