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Plonttoday at 1:00 AM1 replyview on HN

They literally didn't deny that. They made a separate point you appear not to have actually read.

Regardless, I don't want baked-in Firefox adblocking in part because I don't trust Mozilla with that task either. They'd absolutely end up allowing their own "acceptable" telemetry and ads. Even if they didn't, it would be unlikely to ever be as effective as Ublock Origin. Much like how Chromium browsers' built-in adblocking is barely anything in comparison, even on Manifest V2.

And yet, for now, Firefox and Mozilla is by far the lesser evil. I like a few of the Chromium browsers well enough, but they are ultimately at the mercy of Google.

I hope Ladybird does well, too.


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swed420today at 1:12 AM

Their separate point was ignored because it was an irrelevant tangent.

> Regardless, I don't want baked-in Firefox adblocking in part because I don't trust Mozilla with that task either.

This is in a thread about how we should be happy that FF is vetting code for us. Do we trust them or don't we?

> And yet, for now, Firefox and Mozilla is by far the lesser evil.

I'm instinctively tempted to agree, but the difference is so negligible at this point that the only sign I would is the fact I'm still using FF due to momentum (as well as Ladybird not being ready from prime time yet).

FF/Mozilla has proven itself to be controlled opposition, so I'm not very interested in games of "lesser-of-two-evils" abuser logic that has infected politics and many other spheres in a race to the bottom.

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