• spacecadet@lemm.ee
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      I use Firefox because I want you use a web browser whose main focus is browsing the web.

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        I really really want to believe in firefox but the corporations behind it are way too fishy.

        The whole setup of mozilla foundation and mozilla coporation stinks. Mozilla asking for donations when the donation amount is barely 1 percent of their income.

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          That’s an odd complaint. If they didn’t ask for donations, donations would be a lower % of their income. How many donations do you need before you can ask for donations?

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            If a corporations earns halve a billion. Does it really need donations?

            The whole concept of a parent company owning the foundation is fishy. Its just as strange that firefox seems to be like by privacy people when the owners are as instranparent as mozilla.

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              1 year ago

              Firefox is open source. Check it out for yourself or find a fork that works better for you.

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              The whole concept of a parent company owning the foundation is fishy.

              The non-profit foundation is the parent company. It has some taxable subsidiaries that, among other things, handle certain revenue-generating business deals.

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                You say that like it is any better.

                A non-profit that owns a for-profit company is very well not realy non-profit. Just because all their profit is made by one of their subsidaries? And yet mozilla stand itself on some kind of moral highground.

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                  A non-profit that owns a for-profit company is very well not realy non-profit.

                  All of the profit of the subsidiary goes to the nonprofit parent, in furtherance of its nonprofit mission. The subsidiary doesn’t exist to make anybody rich but just to earn (taxable) income for the parent.

        • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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          I really really want to believe in firefox but the corporations behind it are way too fishy.

          You’re right. Let’s continue using browsers made by Google or Microsoft instead. No fishiness there at all!

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      I came to say just this…

      Why is the person downloading chrome in the first place. Firefox with ghostery and ublock origin is the way forward

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      Sadly Firefox on iPhone doesn’t translate [human languages]. I don’t want to use Chrome on iPhone and Firefox on PC because synchronising bookmarks and history is too important to give up.

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          Blame Apple for that bullshit.

          This one isn’t on Apple. There’s nothing stopping Firefox from having translate on iPhone. It’s on Chrome and Edge.

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              It’s available as an add-on for Firefox on PC. Language translation is built into the application for Chrome and Edge on iPhone.

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                Yes, that’s what I’m trying to say. The browsers have different methods for providing same functionality. But due to restrictions on one platform, Firefox can’t provide the functionality that the users want.

                Also no-addons policy means no adblock either. Which is quite an L.

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                  But due to restrictions on one platform, Firefox can’t provide the functionality that the users want.

                  With all due respect, I don’t think you understand. There is no restriction on language translation on iPhone. Firefox merely doesn’t support built-in language translation. It might have been easier for them if Apple permitted add-ons on iPhone, but it definitely does not prevent language translation. Chrome and Edge have built language translation into their apps for iPhone to facilitate this. Firefox could do the same, but have chosen not to.

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                    Firefox doesn’t do that because modularity has been their thing for a long time while Google and MS would prefer if you’d start using their browsers as they are.

                    Apple’s restrictions aren’t targeted towards Firefox but inadvertently do exactly that.

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        I don’t own an iPhone, but this seems like a totally fair criticism and I don’t see any replies refuting it, so what’s with all the downvotes? I swear to god this place is ridiculous sometimes, these people won’t be happy until you jump through every hoop imaginable to use the Lemmy approved software. Only positive feedback allowed!