After I noticed Firefox has removed the Pocket branding but kept the Pocket stories, I also noticed the settings screen on the homepage no longer lets you disable sponsored stories or links.
Firefox 115:
Firefox 139:
You can still remove these advertisements, but you have to leave the homepage and dig through the settings to find that option.
U should really switch to a firefox fork. The official version is fucked.
Is it really fucked? Like, it works great IMO… What’s wrong with it?
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You’ll be happy to hear that they’re killing off Pocket
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i love how you comment under a post showing you an example
This post shows me how it’s fucked?
🤷♂️ I don’t see it.
Which one do you recommend and why?
Librewolf and Waterfox are good.
Librewolf is the best IMO. If u want persistent logins u gotta go change the sheetings not to wipe everything tho.
Note that for me Librewolf breaks several sites, sadly
I’ve found u they aren’t broken if u spoof a chromium user agent
Thanks, will try that
Swap for mullvad in those cases
Waterfox isn’t bad. https://www.waterfox.net/
I like floorp, it’s very customisable!
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I’m enjoying Zen, really gets out of your way nicely. Does a bunch of things I used to hack in userChrome.css better, still reasonably secure as best I can tell, it’s not librewolf but it’s still firefox so I add back the normal privacy add-ons, about:settings etc, but the UX uplift is worth it.
That said, without the firefox base we’re all fucked, so this, and their general culture, is really quite disturbing.
What are you going to do when the paid Firefox dev team stops developing it?
Donate to the hopefully less greed driven and user data hungry people that will take up the development.
I don’t think you understand, the majority of the heavy lifting browser development is done by the paid devs at Mozilla. If they stop updating the browser none of the down stream forks are going to be able to replace the work they’re doing.
Why wouldnt they? The majority of money at Mozilla has been going to worthless management people and side projects nobody wants. Only a tiny fraction of the money Mozilla spends would be required to pay the devs that actually develop Firefox. Im saying Firefox needs to be hard forked and Mozilla can go to shit for all i care. As long as Mozilla exists, nobody will do it so maybe its even necessary for Mozilla to die.
While true, its unlikely the fork devs will fund raise enough.
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