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parent 8a0ef790ea69870561c80413684911ddac5eb07e
Author: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 07:52:46 +0100
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+<entry>
+<title>Firefox begone</title>
+<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="/articles/firefox-begone"/>
+<id>https://hacktivis.me/articles/firefox-begone</id>
+<published>2024-02-09T04:30:08Z</published>
+<updated>2024-02-09T04:30:08Z</updated>
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+<content type="xhtml">
+<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" class="h-entry">
+<p>Could also be titled “I'm never going to use Firefox ever again”.</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>The defaults are absolutely horrible and barely anything is changeable via <code>about:preferences</code>, you'll need to screw around in documentation-less <code>about:config</code>. I don't want to spend that time anymore, no one should have to.</li>
+ <li>Always more and more nagging and advertisements (sponsored links in new tab and URL suggestions). I'd say this is quite comparable to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification">enshittification</a>, as if firefox wasn't loosing enough users already.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<figure>
+ <img src="/images/firefox-default-browser-dark-pattern.png" />
+ <figcaption>
+ Pop-in with the following content:
+ <blockquote>
+ <em>[Cartoon fox waving a paw]</em><br />
+ <strong>Welcome Back</strong><br />
+ Here's a quick reminder that you can keep your favorite indie browser just one click away.
+ <ul>
+ <li>[Highlighted button] Open my links with Firefox</li>
+ <li>[Simple hyperlink] Not now</li>
+ </ul>
+ </blockquote>
+ </figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>
+ Cute Fox sure, but that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern">dark-patterned</a> popin spawned right in the web-based game I was testing, well after it loaded. Thanks for stealing focus… And of course you cannot answer "no, never" maybe the folks at mozilla need a reminder of what <em>consent</em> means.<br />
+ This should have never have ended up into a firefox release, there's a limit to how much you can nag users at <em>every</em> browser launch, this it way past tolerable.<br />
+ For me this ended up being the final straw, I ended up uninstalling firefox. I'd rather just use chromium few times a year instead as fallback to when I need WebRTC <a href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235885">until GstWebRTC is viable</a> (btw Firefox grabs it's WebRTC implementation directly from chromium).
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ By the way, Firefox is <strong>not</strong> an <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/independence">independent</a> browser. It has been reliant on Google's money for ages, even while Google's main business effectively directly goes against values Firefox supposedly has.
+</p>
+
+<p>Fucking <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/adware">adware</a>.</p>
+
+<h2>Previously</h2>
+<ul>
+ <li>2017-07-09: <a href="/articles/www-client%20are%20broken">www-client are broken</a></li>
+ <li>2015-11-11: <a href="/articles/Mozilla%20is%20Broken">Mozilla is Broken</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+</content>
+</entry>
diff --git a/config.ninja b/config.ninja
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ build articles/T495-4Y-later.html: article entry.xsl articles/T495-4Y-later.xml
build articles/Why$ I$ embraced$ Wayland.html: article entry.xsl articles/Why$ I$ embraced$ Wayland.xml
build articles/cve.org-disaster.html: article entry.xsl articles/cve.org-disaster.xml
build articles/drm-definition.html: article entry.xsl articles/drm-definition.xml
+build articles/firefox-begone.html: article entry.xsl articles/firefox-begone.xml
build articles/firmware-broken-terminology.html: article entry.xsl articles/firmware-broken-terminology.xml
build articles/google-web-environment-integrity-illegal.html: article entry.xsl articles/google-web-environment-integrity-illegal.xml
build articles/self-hosting.html: article entry.xsl articles/self-hosting.xml
diff --git a/feed.atom.in b/feed.atom.in
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
<updated>2023-06-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
<!-- new.sh: new articles here -->
+<xi:include href="articles/firefox-begone.xml"/>
<xi:include href="articles/T495-4Y-later.xml"/>
<xi:include href="articles/wasm-hype-wish.xml"/>
<xi:include href="articles/drm-definition.xml"/>
diff --git a/home.shtml b/home.shtml
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
<h1>Home</h1>
<p>List of articles, newest first:</p>
<ol class="indexlist">
+ <li>2024-02-09: <a href="/articles/firefox-begone">Firefox Begone</a></li>
<li>2024-01-08: <a href="/articles/T495-4Y-later">Lenovo T495: Nearly 4 years later</a></li>
<li>2023-12-13: <a href="/articles/wasm-hype-wish">I wish I could be hyped by WASM</a></li>
<li>2023-11-10: <a href="/articles/drm-definition">On the definition of DRM</a></li>
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