Someone made a very suspicious fedpost and Cloudflare used that as justification to take the site down.
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The reason is Googles stranglehold over the Internet. If you use any chromium based browser you are feeding into the problem, yes, even brave. Googles marketshare in terms of browser is just too damn high. I hate Mozilla with a passion but Firefox is the only viable competitor... Since a lot of sites are optimised to work on chromium based browsers you have certain websites that work semi fine or not that great sometimes.
Firefox is chrome/ium-lite, and both founded on google money and uses google tech. Like their extensions among other things. It's not a competitor. Pale Moon is. You're completely right about google's stranglehold on the internet though. Unless we say no to it.
True that they use google money, I don't know about calling it chromium lite though. I'm actually testing librewolf extensively right now and liking its in-built privacy features and it isn't chromium based.
Well, they both follow WHATWG, instead of W3C [1]. They both use google's Web Extensions. They both use google safebrowsing [3]. They both use google's Web Components [4]. They both use the Chrome User Interface [5]. They both use google analytics within their browser [6].They also both use google search as the default search (which is what they're mostly being paid for), and it's obvious that they're trying to play catch-up with Chrome to retain even the few percent of global users they have now when every site only checks if it works against google chrome/ium.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHATWG
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_of_Firefox#Electrolysis_and_WebExtensions
[3] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-malware-protection-work#w_what-information-is-sent-to-mozilla-or-its-partners-when-phishing-and-malware-protection-is-enabled
[4] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/06/the-state-of-web-components/
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_of_Firefox#cite_note-26
[6] https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785
Further reading: https://digdeeper.club/articles/mozilla.xhtml & https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/firefox.html