In light of Mozilla’s recent policy changes, we no longer feel assured that Firefox aligns with our commitment to protect your privacy. This prompted us to revisit the choice of default web browser in Zorin OS 17.3.

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    2 hours ago

    the everyday linux distro that is famous for asking people for money for their pro version, cause they know most of the userbase is coming from windows and doesnt know that everything is free?

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    1 hour ago

    one of the worst distros ever so I guess this is pretty obvious choice and telling to some.

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    8 hours ago

    “we replaced the browser with ad ware, that we even admit we had to ship settings to minimise its malware effect”

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    17 hours ago

    Brave marketing has gone crazy to convince people it’s less dodgy than Firefox. Come on!

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    They should’ve picked LibreWolf which ships with uBlock Origin. Brave is a disappointing choice because it supports multi-level marketing pyramid schemes which says enough about their moral compass.


    ✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

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    “Mozilla has a bit been shady lately, so we are making the difficult decision to change our default browser to something significantly more shady. We are confident our users will feel safer knowing their data is in even worse hands than before"

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    22 hours ago

    Seems like a strange choice. If anything i would’ve expected them to just use a firefox fork or something.

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      Zen is literally the best browser around right now, I do understand the UI isn’t for everybody but if you vibe with it, it rocks

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    17 hours ago

    I’m actually not familiar with this distro. But if I installed a Linux distro, and it had brave installed. I would immediately switch.

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      21 hours ago

      Brave is a fairly recent outlier, and while it isn’t quite proprietary, it stinks a fair bit of something capitalist/crypto.