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Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin
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Replying to @inari@piefed.zip
Replying to @JoMiran@lemmy.ml
Just a crying shame Mozilla has turned into a commercial nightmare making them relatively poor custodians of the only free choice we have left.
Mozilla needs to die so Firefox can live.
The income stream from Firefox is plenty for a highly technical, deeply competent, widely dispersed team could work full time on the product using something like OpenCollective.
Instead what we get is prime SF real estate offices, “competitive” SF salaries and a commercial organisation that seeks weird and increasingly desperate income streams to justify looking like “real company”.
I want an actual non-profit governing Firefox.
Replying to @sunbeam60@feddit.uk
It’s called the forks, dude.
Also, hopefully the ladybug thing or whatever gets off the ground someday.
Edit: Servo is the better project to follow.
Replying to @Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
But it isn’t really. The forks rely on the majority effort of Mozilla and they would never be able to maintain Firefox on their own.
Replying to @sunbeam60@feddit.uk
This this true but if Mozilla closed it doors tomorrow there would be enough support for a team to be built to maintain it. The market share is small compared to chrome but it’s still an enormous user base.