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• Not Microsoft (Score:4, Insightful)

  by ilsaloving ( 1534307 ) writes: on Friday July 05, 2019 @12:58PM (#58878122)

  I really hope Microsoft doesn’t gain traction on this because they simply cannot be trusted.

  Anyone who lived through the IE6 days will know that this is nothing more than a marketing ploy, trying to tap into a wave of consumer anger.

  Their handling of Windows 10 should have demonstrated, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the contempt in which Microsoft holds users data and privacy. And they’ve shoved telemetry into every single product they release now. Even their SDKs and OSS tools like Visual Studio Code.

  It doesn’t matter what technology Microsoft shoves into their browser. I trust a technology from Microsoft less than I can affect the direction of a black hole.

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• Mozilla Hypocrites (Score:1)

  by Anonymous Coward writes:

  Mozilla talks the talk but they don’t walk the walk. As long as Firefox has telemetry [mozilla.org] automatically sharing user information even when disabled, [reddit.com] and making recommendations [mozilla.org], while automatically opting users in for notifications [mozilla.org] they’re no better than Microsoft offering an incomplete settings app in Windows 10 to partially opt out. No web browser respects your privacy.
• • Re: (Score:1)

    by DECTerm ( 1982022 ) writes:

    Lynx
• We need more than forks (Score:3, Insightful)

  by xack ( 5304745 ) writes: on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:05PM (#58878158)

  The web in general is under attack. Mozilla is getting called a villain for privacy, Wikipedia getting censored by deletionists and any site that cares about free speech gets nazi users. Waterfox, Brave and Pale Moon are the main recommended alternatives that keep getting recommended on Slashdot but they are ultimately controlled by their upstreams for their engines. But I think the web in general is screwed. We need a web revolution, but who will actually become the “Satoshi Nakamoto” of the web?

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  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward writes:

    Pale Moon has been trying to break away from Firefox upstream for years. Their latest venture is something called the Unified XUL Platform, that can be used as a “back-end” for application code in a variety of projects, including ones that the Pale Moon folks aren’t involved with (A few minor unrelated projects have even started using it).

    PM is a fork in the more traditional sense of a fork, not in the sense of most other Firefox derivatives that take each new version of Firefox, apply their customizations
• What’s Microsoft got to do with this? (Score:4, Insightful)

  by 93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 ) writes: on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:22PM (#58878246)

  They’re not currently particularly privacy oriented. They’re not currently marketing their browser as privacy-first. They’re just not Google – and that’s how they’re selling it, with no particular discussion of what they will or won’t be doing with your data themselves.

  So why does the title mention “privacy-first browsers” on a submission where the summary barely mentions any privacy-first browsers?

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• Because that’s what Heroes do. (Score:2)

  by gx5000 ( 863863 ) writes:

  “which they say will allow users to “bypass UK filtering obligations and parental controls””

  Because that’s what Heroes do.
• What about Mobile? (Score:2)

  by jellomizer ( 103300 ) writes:

  Chromes popularity is the fact it is on a bunch of mobile devices. I can’t speak for everyone, but most web browsing I do is on my Phone. So having a Winning PC Web Browser will not change everything like it did in the late 1990’s.

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