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1. Santiago Lema :amiga: (santiago@masto.lema.org)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 18:53:28 JST Santiago Lema :amiga:

   How to chose a browser in 2023:

   - Chrome, belongs to the largest advertising company

   - Firefox, gets most of its income from making Google (the search engine of the largest advertising company) the default choice

   - Safari, could afford to be different but “privacy champion” Apple gets about 15 billion per year for the ad company’s search engine to be the default

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 18:54:52 JST Aral Balkan

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     @santiago Perfect summary.

     (What we need is a browser for the commons funded by the commons built by and independent non-governmental organisation. We could do that in the EU but I’m not holding my breath.)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 19:14:12 JST Aral Balkan

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     @santiago It’s not, though. That’s just the money Mozilla gets. Firefox is one of many things, including millions to their CEO, venture capital investment, AI, etc., that it goes to.

   • Santiago Lema :amiga: (santiago@masto.lema.org)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 19:14:24 JST Santiago Lema :amiga:

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral What I find most shocking is the budget for FireFox being in the billions. I understand it’s a huge codebase etc but still.

     Maybe the way to go is just to maintain a NoAdsFox fork which is just FireFox with better defaults. Guess it already exists ?