[ews]

Moved to firefox and I am glad I did, I want to use a browser that respects my privacy choices

[hardwaresofton]

This is the right answer, and more people (especially technical people like frequent HN) should be pointing this out.

"What ads? Oh you must be running Chrome" needs to be the common refrain.

Really hope this ends up being a surprising tide shift. Firefox has dipped really hard in marketshare, but there's no reason it can't start to gain again/grow steadily.

It's really too bad the Firefox tent wasn't big enough for all the alternative browsers that exist (though of course they're not scratching the surface of real usage either). I skipped the whole Arc wave and I'm glad I did -- it's a distraction from Firefox.

[xaerise]

Sadly more than just ads. my ublock/pihole rules is mostly tracking ( +80% ) and very little ad rules.

[b0ner_t0ner]

Highly recommend Zen Browser: https://github.com/zen-browser

[qmmmur]

What do you like about it?

[DavideNL]

…yet another Chromium browser though - supporting the Google browser monopoly.

[tombert]

I left Firefox a few months ago because there was a bug in their shader cache, so a lot of stuff was laggy. I was willing to put up with until I got a 360 camera and videos were playing at like 2 fps. This was about six months ago, it’s possible that it’s been fixed, I haven’t checked.

I am using Brave right now, which seems fine. I have no idea if it actually respects privacy but they at least claim it does.

[nar001]

That doesn't solve the issue of ManifestV2 being removed though, Brave will have it removed at the same time as Chrome, when it's pulled from the code base

[zulban]

Every browser has occasional big issues. If you haven't seen one yet in (insert browser name here) then you just haven't been around long enough.

[EasyMark]

This is a good reason to stick with LTS vesions of firefox

[j45]

Would it be possible to just look at the videos in a different browser?

[Madmallard]

Apparently no one remembers when Firefox changed their terms of service literally this year to become adversarial toward their own users.

Librewolf is the way to go now.

[DavideNL]

The binaries aren't signed… :’(

Also, it seems quite vague to me exactly who/what company/entity is behind it.

[ranger_danger]

No thanks. Their own devs have gladly called the project "very woke", and a "certainly quite political project".

[dlcarrier]

Go with Pale Moon, if you want a privacy-respecting fork of Firefox.

[EasyMark]

I like librewolf, but it has made similar choices as a fork

[OptionOfT]

I wish Firefox would at least implement a basic adblocker on iOS.

Without it, browsing is unbearable. I wonder if they're not allowed to do so because of their contract with Google?

[comprev]

NextDNS [0] has proven very useful for me on iOS. Firefox is 99% ad-free. Only for YouTube do I switch to Brave Browser.

I use Firefox on other devices and use the sync functionality so prefer to use it where possible.

My home router (Draytek) is also configured to force any connected devices to use NextDNS too.

Definitely worth the €20 annual subscription.

[0] https://nextdns.io

[DavideNL]

I agree; i use Firefox on all my Desktop devices. But on iOS it’s the worst. I never use it, except to quickly check for a (synced) bookmark.

[cassianoleal]

Firefox Focus can be used as an ad-blocker.

[ProtoAES256]

IIRC Firefox on iOS is basically a wrapper around Safari since it's not "opened up"?

[ranger_danger]

It crashes every few days for me and has since the last several major releases... enough that I can't rely on it anymore. (UG) Chromium has never crashed on me once.

[paulryanrogers]

Have you tried disabling hardware acceleration? I've heard some graphics drivers can be crashy when apps push the boundaries.

I have had crashes with Firefox in a long time.

[M95D]

But Firefox is so dependent on google (money, code) that it's absolutely impossible they won't also remove manifest v2. It will just take a little while, for appearances...

[93po]

About a year ago FF said they had no current plans to remove V2 support, and if they did, they'd give at least 12 month notice. Which to me is basically language saying they absolutely will remove it at some point, otherwise they'd just say "no we'll never remove it, fuck google".

I've moved to LibreWolf personally

[slumberlust]

It seems disingenuous to penalize a company for something that hasn't happened and is based on an assumption of interest.

In the same way we should chastise the platforms that choose to enshitify, we should praise those that hold out.

[citizenpaul]

Errrr....https://winaero.com/mozilla-has-removed-the-do-not-sell-user...

[rovr138]

Did you look at the FAQ page they created afterwards?

'do not sell user data' is too broad legally. It's a challenge in some jurisdictions. So they removed that. But it's not because they sell the data. They do have partnerships (like they did Pocket for example). In this case, they have anonymous stats that they share with others and that, in some jurisdictions, could fall under 'selling user data'