THE GREAT BOYCOTT - a megathread on companies to boycott and their alternatives.

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[–]flugegeheimen 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

However, I'm not sure Mozilla works the same way as other products and services, since you don't pay for it.

The majority of Mozilla Corporation revenue is generated from global browser search partnerships, basically Google, Microsoft etc pay them to use a corresponding search as a default search provider in browser. When Firefox's usage will drop to 0%, I imagine Mozilla will be financially dead for good. So, it's a good idea to not touch Firefox.

[–]yellow_algebra_31 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

that does not bode well for open source browsers, is there an alternative that does not have this problem?

[–]danuker 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This guy looked at everything browsers send and receive:

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/browsers.html

[–]Aureus[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Didn't know that, thanks!