The IRS rules governing nonprofits still required the Mozilla Foundation to beg big to go big: the parent had to go find big grants from Soros, Ford, Knight, MacArthur, and give smaller grants to many. This put it in the lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply revolving-door personnel sector of NGOs and nonprofits (too many glowies there for me, too). Which meant I had a hostile MoFo over my head the minute I got CEO appointment from the MoCo board…

Of course I can’t comment on anything about my exit, for reasons that only the most loopy HN h8ers still can’t figure out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251203

  • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.mlEnglish
    72·
    14 hours ago

    Turn it all off and it’s no more in your face. The browser itself functions great when configured according to your needs.

    Fuck their CEO though. Focus on the product. It works and consistently ranks as one of the highest orivacy based browser according to the EFF and multiple non profit sources.

    • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      8·
      11 hours ago

      At that point, why give the nazi fuck any browser usage? If you don’t trust the source, don’t trust the product.

      Like the other person said, use Ungoogled Chromium. I use it on a couple of my devices and it works pretty well.

      • Chastity2323@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Do you know any alternative to forgetful browsing? Basically the only thing keeping me. Just so much more convenient always-on incognito mode.

        Also the fact that I can just turn off all the stuff that makes them money.

        Also I don’t expect manifest v2 support on ungoogled chromium to be reliable.

        Edit: just remembered this exists: https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete. Currently trying it out with ironfox.

      • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        10 hours ago

        The thing I’ve started to notice is the further you stray away from a big box products and into micro custom solutions there is always trade-offs. So far as being unique and the hassle that comes with it maintenance.

        The more hands off you are big corpo and I agree they aren’t your friends, the more you have to maintain the software or setup personally. Or trust the person or people doing it all day everyday and never let up.

        I trust other people mostly, who’s job it is to do these things all day everyday. Having 3rd parties to audit them, than I could be able to, or would want to, consistently maintain software at the standard it requires with the fast changing landscape we have today.

        While you gain more features to some degree, you lose in others like security against vulnerabilities and sheer eyes and minds on the code.

        Fuck their CEO if he is off the wall. Focus on the goal of privacy and the tool you need, the rest is fluff. Use what you need first then want.