Noted

I’ve seen the following types of people:

• People who ask how to do it, and get amazed.
• People who legitimately are not bothered by ads.
• Who think it to be a “headache”, and to just “let it be”.
• Who are incredibly tech illiterate to the point of frustration.

I used to use brave when I just started becoming privacy aware. Here are the reasons why:

• it’s chromium based. I loved the way chromium based browsers looked, especially when compared to Firefox. They had a comforting feel to them, whereas Firefox had a very “office-ey” feel to it.
• I wasn’t aware of the issues of chromium dominating the market share that it does and how monopolization in this manner can be harmful.
• I wasn’t aware of the people behind brave.
• I had seen older people use Firefox (with the default UI, which I didn’t like). That’s why, I associated Firefox with “old and outdated”. I hadn’t seen anyone use brave, and it looked quite good at the time for me.

Now, I use Mercury, a Firefox fork (ikik, it hasn’t seen an update in a long time, shush). I’ve loaded it up with my custom CSS, so its appearance is exactly the way I like.

The reason to promote Firefox is different. As far I’ve observed people here, Mozilla isn’t viewed in a particularly high regard here. It’s just viewed as the “less bad” option.

Google is an ad company. Targeted ads pay more. Invasion of user privacy is highly necessary for having good targeted ads. Hence, Google simply cannot not invade user privacy.

Mozilla is incompetent, yes. But it’s a non profit with a revenue model very different than that of Google.

Blink has a scarily high share of the market. Google is blink’s curator. This gives Google a scarily large amount of power. That is another reason I’ve seen many cite as a reason to use Firefox.

I’ve never seen anyone dick riding Mozilla.

Sure, I’ll take a look :)

I think 2023?

Kde looks unpolished. Always reminds me of windows.

I don’t know why, but gnome is just attractive in a way that makes me want to suck gnome dick