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Due to @mozillaofficial 's change on , I'm trying @brave and probably phasing out from Firefox.
I'm also looking for a @thunderbird replacement as well, open for suggestions!

@giorgiolucas We won't be adopting the Firefox Terms of Use for Thunderbird. Even though you may switch away from us regardless, we wanted you to have the right information, and hope this helps!

@giorgiolucas How do you think the company being Brave is being financed ? productmint.com/brave-business…

Besides, I don't think a Chromium engine only world is something we really want, Adding that Firefox remains open source so we know the code and know exactly what it does while Brave is not.

If you really can't stay on Firefox, you should take a look at Zen Browser, a more modern approach than Firefox using Gecko as its web engine.

Brave Business Model
productmint · How Does Brave Make Money? Analyzing The Browser's Business ModelBrave makes money via banner ads, subscription fees, search ads, affiliate commissions, and by selling digital and physical products through its online store.

@giorgiolucas I switched to LibreWolf but kept Thunderbird as they're managed by a different team who haven't put AI into our beloved email client... @thunderbird yet?

@giorgiolucas No, in its core it is a Chromium browser with many different features with some of them are also cryptocurrency based, but you can switch them all off and remove the icons.

@lxwulf @giorgiolucas

Sorry but LibreWolf and Thunderbird aren't related to Chromium or cryptocurrencies

@veroandi

While this is true, brave is still a great browser with the possibility to adapt everything as you want.

Btw: @giorgiolucas maybe @floorp is something for you? I do not know, but that was @thelinuxexperiment and @BrodieOnLinux has been using it since the Mozilla drama. 🤔

Here is also a video from Brodie:
youtube.com/watch?v=6OUjWdAtGb

Just a tip, maybe useful. 🤷‍♂️😊

Else may recommendation is looking into @brave

@lxwulf thanks for the suggestions.
For the moment, I'm sticking with @librewolf and @Vivaldi, which Vivaldi is the one catching more my attention, despite the fact that's Chromium based (it had to have a problem 😅)

@giorgiolucas easy, no problem!

I guess you can't have everything. 😉

@thunderbird @thelinuxEXP - regarding your worries and "not wanting to have anything to do with Mozilla" - Thunderbird and Firefox teams are completly different and separate entities

@leniwcowaty @thunderbird I know that, but it’s still a Mozilla held product, through a subsidiary. It’s still a concern to me :)

@leniwcowaty @thunderbird @thelinuxEXP No it's not. It's 2 corporation under the banner of the same foundation. Both Firefox and Thunderbird are still Mozilla. They are under the same shitty leadership, especially when most of the people behind the foundation are also behind the Firefox corporation.

@leniwcowaty @thunderbird @thelinuxEXP

"[The Mozilla Foundation] owns two taxable subsidiaries: the Mozilla Corporation, which employs many Mozilla developers and coordinates releases of the Mozilla Firefox web browser, and MZLA Technologies Corporation, which employs developers to work on the Mozilla Thunderbird email client and coordinate its releases.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_

en.wikipedia.orgMozilla Foundation - Wikipedia

@thunderbird @giorgiolucas Just leave Mozilla already.

Thunderbird being owned by Mozilla is just tainting it.

You are a corporation, just go on your own.

@thunderbird if I make a donation on your web page, does the sum goes entirely and directly to you guys?

@thunderbird@mastodon.online @giorgiolucas@techhub.social
I switched from Firefox to Vivaldi today, so I moved away from Thunderbird too, since Vivaldi includes a decent mail client. Sorry...

@shadowmaru thank you very much Ricardo! I'll try it then! :)

@shadowmaru any suggestions for an email client too?

@giorgiolucas @shadowmaru I'm sticking to @thunderbird - they seem relatively well shielded from the rot within Mozilla's leadership (for now).

@giorgiolucas @mozillaofficial @brave @thunderbird wait wait, so you've opted for *Brave* as ‘better’ than Firefox?

@zbrown @mozillaofficial @brave @thunderbird
I was not aware of the polemics around Brave, now that it has come to my attention I'll be trying @librewolf

@thunderbird @mozillaofficial @giorgiolucas @brave I feel obliged to say that Brave is run by a homophobic republican, just in case that matters to you.
@thunderbird @mozillaofficial @giorgiolucas @brave @mage_of_dragons To add insult to injury. An all-round evil person who will use the money extracted from you using brave to fund more evilness.

@gmc @thunderbird @mozillaofficial @brave that totally matters, thanks for the notice! I'll be trying @librewolf instead of Brave

@thunderbird @mozillaofficial @giorgiolucas @brave I've been using @librewolf ever since Mozilla started adding ad-tech to Firefox. it can be a bit limiting if you go full-privacy-preserving, but I'm willing to make that trade-off. You can tone down its zeal in protecting your privacy if you want.

Things you might run into are that access to canvas is blocked by default, your user-agent will always report as running Firefox on Windows in timezone UTC, language set to English, etc... Also a preference for dark mode is not communicated to websites.

@gmc @giorgiolucas

Brave's CEO was a co-founder of Mozilla and he also created the programming language Javascript, but it will be hard to get rid of Javascript... he resigned as CEO of Mozilla after it was revealed that he had donated money to a campaign against same-sex marriage.

@giorgiolucas @mozillaofficial @brave @thunderbird

With Brave you get thais KI Shit answers always first.

I switched to LibreWolf on Desktop and Vivaldi on Mobile