inari@piefed.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 days agoHang on to your Firefox!www.newsonaut.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1102arrow-down17
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minus-squareImgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down35·8 days agoNah, Vivaldi still has a much better anti-ai stance. Runs faster and still loads uBlock. This will likely change soon, but I’m not rushing to Firefox until I need to. Firefox is funded by Google anyway.
minus-squareinari@piefed.zipOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up61arrow-down3·edit-28 days agoVivaldi is: Chromium-based and thus funded by Google Proprietary, meaning any claims about what it’s doing under the hood are unprovable
minus-squaretidderuuf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down2·8 days ago Firefox is funded by Google anyway. That sounds like Firefox only exists because Google/Alphabet pays for it. In reality Firefox/Mozilla have made a deal to make Google the default search engine on the default home page. That would be a pretty stupid business decision to not have free money, what are they gonna do? Have Bing as the default search engine?
minus-squareGoodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·8 days agoFirefox could develop (or pay for someone else to develop) a search engine that doesn’t require google or bing’s search indexes.
minus-squareFiskFisk33@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·8 days ago “Dont throw the baby out with the bathwater”
Nah, Vivaldi still has a much better anti-ai stance. Runs faster and still loads uBlock. This will likely change soon, but I’m not rushing to Firefox until I need to. Firefox is funded by Google anyway.
Vivaldi is:
Addons on google too
That sounds like Firefox only exists because Google/Alphabet pays for it.
In reality Firefox/Mozilla have made a deal to make Google the default search engine on the default home page.
That would be a pretty stupid business decision to not have free money, what are they gonna do? Have Bing as the default search engine?
Firefox could develop (or pay for someone else to develop) a search engine that doesn’t require google or bing’s search indexes.