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So now what the hell do we have to use to not be spied upon?
Librewolf is still a good alternative
In the good/bad old days a web page was just text and images but now a browser is a platform for running software. Each website can do useful computing for the user but the software author is in control and always tempted to make it run for them at the expenve of the user.
Crazy idea, maybe we shouldn't use web browsers.
Well I suppose LibreWolf (or some other de-branded Firefox) will become more mainstream. Similar to what chromium is to chrome 🤷
If we are comparing it to Chrome, it is more like Ungoogled-Chromium.
That's not a real equivalence.
Chromium is the basis for Google Chrome, while Librewolf is nothing more than a leech to Firefox. It's just Firefox, rebranded.
Rebranded, pre-cleaned of all the forced stuff from mozilla, with the built-in integration of more privacy-enhancing features.
So, not "just firefox, rebranded" at all.
They aren't developing or maintaining the core browser though, they depend on Firefox still being looked after.
Soon other web engine will coming, first LadyBird browser and two is Servo Browser. But they're still along way to go
Am I missing something on Servo Browser? Because when I went to check it out and seems more like next-gen browser engine that looks to be an improvement on Firefox's Gecko. If so then we will need to wait for a browser team to adopt it.
Servo is also building a web browser UI.
But isn't Servo funded by Mozilla
Used to be.
I am still waiting desperately for a servo based browser, mozilla kicking it out was one of the reasons I lost all hope in Mozilla a while back.