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• parpol@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Chromium (Google Chrome’s base) is also open source.

    And yet, we’re still at a corporation’s mercy as to whether everything Chromium-based gets ruined by Google’s fuck-what-the-users-want policies. Like with Manifest V3. And JXL support. And extensions on mobile.

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    • parpol@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • AWittyUsername@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Except now you have to maintain a branch that’s missing everything after that release upstream.

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    • timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Users do want MV3. The people complaining about it are in the minority.

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      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Users don’t know what the fuck Manifest is period. They just click the internet button. And for the longest time that meant the E with a loop around it. Now that means the multicolored circle.

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      • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Why the hell would a user want MV3?

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  • AWittyUsername@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So is Android. So is Chromium. So is React, and Flutter. So is Java.

    Open source doesn’t mean FOSS.

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    • bamboo@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Open source does mean FOSS. It doesn’t mean community-oriented.

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      • AWittyUsername@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No it doesn’t. Different licenses dictate what you can and can’t do with open source software. Some are more restrictive than others. Open source simply means that the source code is freely available.

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• Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m grateful for FF, but they also annoy me at times. Just little stuff probably not worth bitching about in detail. But also a peek at the potential for problems that you’re talking about.

  So of course I’ll bitch about it.

  I call it the “stop whatever you think you’d rather do right now and pay attention to our product” type shit.

  Imagine you have a combination wrench and whenever you take it out of the toolbox it starts yammering at you about how great of a wrench it is and all if its shiny features. Fucking ridiculous, right?

  So why do we tolerate software that does that?

  Way too much software does this pushy shit. Just stay outta my face and do your actual job, software.

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  • Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because people have the attention span of a goldfish and if you aren’t reminding them every 5 seconds of the features they have available they’ll forget they do in fact use them and then complain to support because they can’t spend 5 seconds on the help page.

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  • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We’re so fucking used to ads we don’t even ways realize we’re getting pushed propaganda

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• viking@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Firefox is a foundation, not a corporation. And I’m already using Fennec instead of the official release.

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No. Firefox is a product. Mozilla is a corporation AND a foundation.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation

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• Chozo@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, it's strange just how readily the blinders go up wherever Mozilla is concerned. They're a corp, just like any other; if they had the money and leverage, they'd be just as aggressive as Google.

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  • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But they haven’t yet and haven’t threatened to yet, so as a comparison they are better.

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Absolutely, but Mozilla is pretty much owned by Google anyway, and falling in love with these companies as wide eyed fanboys never looks good when they eventually turn.

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      • Sordid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s okay to like them while they do good and then change your mind when they turn evil.

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      • OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I wouldn’t say “owned”, but the rest… yeah:-(

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  • timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You forgot to also mention that they are a cult where you get attacked if you say anything negative about Mozilla.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You forgot to not shill for an actual corporation

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      • timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m not shilling for anyone. If you want to discuss actual technical details I’m happy to do so. If you’re here just to share your feelings absent facts then I don’t care what you have to say.

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mmm mmm mmm, Bill Cosby tells me to love my puddin’ pops!

  …i feel sleepy…

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