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Mozilla is removing "Does Firefox sell your personal data?" in anticpation of ToS change (github.com)

submitted 9 months ago by e0qdk@reddthat.com to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The forks only keep existing thanks to Mozilla development, they can't actually maintain a browser engine, just tidy up a bit around the edges. If people drop Firefox altogether and it dies, so do the forks. Not saying that it's wrong to do that. But it makes me worried for the future.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully, someone would pick up the slack.

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully, but it is a huge project, it is really hard to overstate just how much work it is. There are a few hundred very good programmers working on FF full-time at Mozilla. To be a community project it would have to be thousands of people.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What a coincidence, we happen to have thousands of independent developers who use Linux and Firefox every day!

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How is Linux related here?

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

Because Firefox is the default browser on virtually all Linux distros, and has a nearly rabid fanbase among Linux users.