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@Rhinschnoog Deshalb #Firefox #Librewolf oder sonst ein #Gecko basierter Browser mit #uBlockOrigin und #NoScript - Mit Manifest V3 sind dagegen Chromium basierte Browser unbrauchbar geworden.

Ein Adblocker ist genau so eine sicherheitsrelevante Komponente, wie ein Malwareschutz unter Windows. Im vorliegenden Thread wäre noch der angenehme Nebeneffekt, dass man keine #Nazi Werbung sehen muss.

Edit: Das BSI empfiehlt Adblocker: bsi.bund.de/DE/Themen/Verbrauc

Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der InformationstechnikAd-Blocker & Tracking

Live #crickets for the #gecko I got my daughter. Dozens of them got out of the terrarium somehow through some gap and crawling around the house. Family had a joy trying to get them all. I get home from work and the first thing I see is a little cricket on the floor escaping haha - little buggers!

so for years and years everyone on the correct side of the #tech politics spectrum has been weary of #mozilla foundation but also aware that the ... like 2%?... market share that #gecko holds among web engines is the only thing left from giving away the entire internet to google and apple.

whats keeping anyone from forking gecko and developing it separately? if the community rallies around it, then all the non-corpo aligned #foss browsers can build on it (significant proportion of them already do) and granted we have to give credit to mozilla but at least we don't have to constantly chase and disable every ai product they try to shove into their updates.

what am i missing?

I really want to keep using & supporting #gecko but #Mozilla is going down the toilet- what to do?

#Firefox desktop -> #LibreWolf (that was easy, simply copied my profile and it all came back exactly as before)

#Firefox mobile -> #IronFox (also easy on #GrapheneOS via #Accrescent store)

I can still use #FirefoxSync on both which is nice 'cos I am not quite ready to leave that convenience yet.

Now it's mostly just a matter of replacing my dependency on #Pocket (compiled out of LibreWolf), but that was on my list of services to deprecate anyway...

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@trs currently using #WaterFox, so all my usual extensions are working fine.
I could even enable sync (it uses Mozilla account) safely because all data is encrypted at rest and the key never leaves your browser, and Mozilla cannot reconstruct it.
(#LibreWolf and #floorp are also built on the #Gecko foundation afaiu -- I imagine they should also be a fairly smooth transition).