Someone made a very suspicious fedpost and Cloudflare used that as justification to take the site down.
If you have any info as this develops, feel free to post.
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (96)
sorted by:
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