melroy

No I didn't overrated. Users where opt-in in ad tracking by default after that Firefox update. Users were not notified about this. And "privacy-preserving ad measurement" is misleading on purpose, I don't understand why you would fall for that too.

This all happened when Mozilla bought an ad company called Anonym. I'm fully done with Firefox now. I moved to a Firefox fork.

What is not true? Mozilla is lay off people with a move to AI: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/mozilla-lays-off-60-people-wants-to-build-ai-into-firefox/. And invested millions into AI: https://digiworld.news/news/65190/mozilla-invests-30m-to-launch-mozillaai-and-redefine-the-next-era-of-ai. And are hiring a lot of AI engineers specifically: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/listings/

After Mozilla introduced "Allow web sites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement", I was out for good now. I moved to forks like Floorp, LibreWolf or Waterfox.

I'm not sure why all the down-votes.. But I'm not lying.. Look at: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/mozilla-lays-off-60-people-wants-to-build-ai-into-firefox/. Or https://digiworld.news/news/65190/mozilla-invests-30m-to-launch-mozillaai-and-redefine-the-next-era-of-ai. There are literately millions invested into AI by Mozilla.

And they are mostly hiring AI engineers as well: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/listings/

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I myself have much success with Linux Mint (eg. Cinnamon edition). I love Mint.. It just works.. It's stable and I can focus on doing my work under Linux, which is software development mostly. But I just don't have the time to debug my distro, fixing things and compile stuff myself. I already need to manage multiple PCs & servers running Linux. Hence I went with Linux Mint on both my desktop PCs as well as my laptop I'm currently typing on.

I tested things like: bluetooth, wifi, speedtest, webcam, shortcuts (eg. sound buttons or brightness buttons at the top), trackpad, multiple finger gestures. The only thing I didn't yet test is the finger print reader, if it has one?..

Framework laptops can also come with many expansion cards, like HDMI, DisplayPort, network (LAN) port, USB a, USB c, and so much more. I also tested those in-/outputs. Thus far everything seem to work nicely. I did switch the wifi card, I replaced the stock wifi card with a Intel AX210, which seems to work much better under Linux in terms of not only speed, but also signal strength. Let me know if you want to know more..

yeah I know.. It's not ideal. I don't recommend it.

Agreed, if you can effort is, buy a domain and use it for email. I also have melroy at melroy dot o r g. However, I still redirect my mail, since I don't like paying for services haha. That being said, I'm planning to setup my own mail server (I finally now have the infrastructure at home and static IP, needed for this).

Anyhow, DNS also needs to be replaced by something better.

I dare to say it: 70% of the devs are not quality focused to start with. They are already happy if something, somewhat, sort of, works. And then not even ship a unit test with it.

It's still youtube.. And if you talk about Tor, the Tor network is not gonna like this kind of traffic. Video streams are too heavy for the Tor network. Maybe I2Pnet... But again, it's still Google YouTube.

THat sounds great! Gmail can be easily replaced, by like Proton mail or something.. Youtube is also very hard.. It's a vicious circle, "Youtubers" try to host their content elsewhere but nobody is looking. While some users also want to get rid of the youtube platform, but since most people are still and keep watching on YouTube, the content creators keep uploading there...

I agree. But to be very honest, de-googling is very important but not always very easy. So I did personally move away already from Gmail. I also now host my own Nextcloud instance, which I use for my agenda as well as contacts. Meaning I also don't sync or store contacts or anything in Google. I don't use any cloud services for storage either, again Nextcloud (self hosted) solved that for me.

Then I was never using ChromeOS, so that helps, I'm only using Linux. However, I do have an Android device. It's really hard to get rid of that, maybe a custom ROM, is that valid? Anyhow, and last but not least Google search, Google images, Google maps, etc. I don't want to go from Google Search to another big Microsoft corp, so moving to Bing is a no go. That also means all those meta search engines is also not a good alternative, which includes: DuckDuckGo, ecosia and alike.. Qitchain, presearch or Yacy isn't working for me either. It's just not good enough.

Thus finding a good search alternative is hard! I'm actually considering as a software engineer to build my own.

Mozilla is only focusing on AI stuff.