I bought an 4.7 rated amplifier on Amazon that broke the first day. Looking at the reviews closer, I noticed they were 100% paid reviewers.
When I tried to leave a negative review, Amazon stopped me, giving a generic message about fake reviews on this product. This product is still out their with a high rating and no way for actual purchasers like me to warn other customers.
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can we please stop with the browser bloat? This is something that should be a plug-in, not a kitchen sink feature.
1984@lemmy.today 1 year ago
I actually don’t agree, and the reason is - non tech people. You and me can install plugins but ordinary people don’t do that. So the default experience must be good, offering improvements to the experience over Google Chrome.
Otherwise all privacy features could also be plugins. Imagine if that was true. Firefox would have no identity and you would have to install plugins and make it your own.
So some features should be built in. Maybe the ability to get pop-ups about false reviews will actually make users go “wow that is so useful”.
neshura@bookwormstory.social 1 year ago
Compromise: Develop it as a Plugin and then install it by default. That way people who don’t want the feature can easily remove it completely. That approach would likely also reduce the number of Firefox forks whose sole purpose is to remove the new features some consider bloat.
Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Now, let’s talk about adblockers… Oh, wait, Google would get upset if FF had an inbuild adblocker…
mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Reminds me of gnome.
RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Agreed. This is well outside the scope of native browser functions. Firefox already has a rich extensions ecosystem. They can just include the extension with the browser by default for all I care, but as a native feature, this makes no sense.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 year ago
They do that. Screenshot upload and so on are handled as extensions.
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I’d say these should be “recommended plug-ins” but imho FF/Moz embarassed themselves on that front with the whole “Pocket” thing.
kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I agree and I worry about what options they’ll remove from about:config next to make room for or force the acceptance of new features like they have a habit of doing.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
There’s LibreWolf. It allows you to disable many things that you can’t disable in normal Firefox. It also has uBlock Origin pre-installed and it’s pre-configured for privacy.
csm10495@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
+1. When Edge added a price tracker / financing thing, the same people threw a fit.
If you were pro that, you should be pro this.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Just use LibreWolf if you want debloated Firefox
soulfirethewolf@lemdro.id 1 year ago
Librewolf isn’t just a debloated version of Firefox. It’s built with a completely different goal of being extra locked down for privacy. More so than the defaults of Firefox. Also, it doesn’t even include auto update functionality unless you’re using a package manager.