Comment by KingMob
1 year ago
The problem with these privacy-first Firefox forks is none have the resources to match FF.
If Firefox dies, eventually so will they, as the code stagnates relative to better-funded browsers.
Saying "switch to a privacy-first fork" is not a long-term solution.
The internet doesn’t actually need any more new features anyway, and most sites reflect this and just serve HTML.
Some sites will need new features. But I guess it is fine to have a data-collecting version of Firefox or even some moderately well behaved malware like Chrome, as long as most browsing doesn’t happen through it. So, I guess I’ll look at moving most of my browsing to a privacy respecting form and keeping the a browser around for faulty sites…
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> Saying "switch to a privacy-first fork" is not a long-term solution.
You're 100% right while operating in an environment that is hostile to privacy. In these conditions security/privacy remains mostly tactical, not strategic. In fact, against a predominant tyranny it is insurrectional. Free Software will have to learn to adapt with more intelligence-sharing and opportunistic manoeuvres.
As an aside though, one might generalise to say there are no long term solutions in tech, period. And therefore advocates of freedom and privacy are at no particular disadvantage relative to any opponents.