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Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data. (github.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/26136291

Mozilla has just deleted the following:

“Does Firefox sell your personal data?”

“Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. "

Source: Lundke journal.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

If you don't want to use Gecko nor Chromium, I am aware of the following alternatives:

WebKit

Though associated with Apple and Safari, WebKit (@[email protected]) has its origins in KDE and its Konqueror browser. KDE developed its own web engine called KHTML, which was forked into WebKit. It's therefore fully open source, despite the Apple connection.

On Linux you can use WebKit in GNOME Web (formerly Epiphany) or Konqueror. If you're on Mac, Safari is probably your best bet. Windows users appear to be out of luck.

Servo

Servo (@[email protected]) is a brand new Rust-based engine which was originally developed by Mozilla, but which was abandoned by them like good things often are. Thankfully the Linux foundation took over developments. It's still in development, but from their download page you can take it for a spin within seconds on all three major operating systems. It's looking pretty good.

They maintain a list of things made with Servo. The most promising project so far appears to be a browser named Verso.

Ladybird

Ladybird is another development to follow. Unlike WebKit and Servo, Ladybird is being developed as a web browser in its own right, but this browser will come with a completely original rendering engine. It aims to have an alpha released next year, and is largely written in C++.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Funnily enough WebKit was Chromium's original engine.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

They maintain a list of things made with Servo

As someone who has been closely following the development of Servo, today I still learned that Verso and Servoshell are not the only things using Servo.