preface
Seems like there are some unwelcome changes going on at Firefox.
A friend sent a link earlier today of a Firefox PR in which the following question gets removed from the FAQ in the FAQ source code:
- Does Firefox sell your personal data?
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- Nope, never have, never will. And we protect you ...
here is also the link if you want to check it out.
It’s fine that they do want to sell data to sustain themselves. Now that some problems in funding could come up with the Google anti-trust lawsuit, but still it makes me not want to use their tool anymore.
My biggest problem is the following, how few (at least usable and privacy respecting) alternatives exist.
It’s not like with text editors, for which you can select between a dozen good options, but instead you have a lot of untrusted parties such as Google or Opera and now apparently also Mozilla. Plus a few tiny players who can’t compete or even build a competitive Project due to the sheer size that a web browser needs now.
You do have some Firefox forks like Librewolf or zen-browser, but Librewolf has its own problem (that being it’s hard to configure with nix) and for zen I don’t know if the “spying” will just be added there too.
So now I am having my eyes on two other options
But with them, even though there is great appeal to them, I am still concerned about a few things. Mainly the possibility to use an ad-Blocker, as both both of them don’t really seem to have extensions in the way a chrome or Firefox has, or even “just” to use uBlock origin.
“conclusion”
So here a question instead of a conclusion as normally:
If anybody has experience with qutebrowser / nyxt, found a good alternative or a good way to e.g. just block ads locally, please let me know via mail or matrix.
I will update this note if I get any good results.