Google has announced that it will move forward with Manifest V3 on Chrome, sounding the death knell for ad-blockers like uBlock Origin.
  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
    948·
    1 year ago

    Firefox is adding optional builtin promoted paid services tho. (VPN, email obfuscator) This stuff should be extensions. Makes me worry.

    • chris@l.roofo.cc
      284·
      1 year ago

      More than the company that literally is a for profit that makes a browser that kneecaps adblocking and puts an ad targeting protocol onto the Browser?

      • Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Mozilla Corporation is a for profit company that builds Firefox. The Mozilla Foundation is nonprofit.

        MZLA Technologies, the Thunderbird company, is also for profit which is why donations to them are not tax deductible.

    • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      Those two aren’t bad, IMO. It lines up with what people think their principles should be.

      You want something to make you worry? They’re integrating Fakespot, an AI-based review scanner that Mozilla acquired a while back, into Firefox. Never mind that industries are having problems auto-scanning content for AI generated prose…