"It’s time to come back to Firefox. The Internet you loved is still here." - Firefox brings together people from famous internet memes in the 2000s in a new marketing push

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• iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’d prefer less ads, less budget for the CEO and less shady AI and crap opted in by default.

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    true and I agree to all of that, but this ad is actually nice.

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    • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I also think some outreach is important, especially if they can get that through memes instead of paying Facebook/Google.

      Having more people using Firefox instead of Google chrome is a good thing. If nothing else, websites will have more of an incentive to make sure websites work on non-chromium browsers.

      And hey, if a few of those new users donate to the project, they can be less reliant on Google and sponsored content

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  • emmy5482@quokk.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Waterfox is right there

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    • LLMhater1312@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And libre wolf!

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    • iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Waterfox didn’t come out of thin air, though. It still needs Firefox to provide an updated browser code so they can do their changes. I doubt they could handle a full browser standalone on their own.

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  • GuyDudeman@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How about no AI and crap opted-in by default? Seriously, Vivaldi is great for my needs, and I haven’t had any problems using ublock origin and other ad blocking extensions with it.

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    • BillyClark@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I like Vivaldi, but in my experience, LibreWolf is even better at blocking some of the worst ads.

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  • TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sorry can’t do 80% of my revenue is from Google

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• Chozo@fedia.io ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Internet you loved is still here.

  No it isn't. The internet I loved is long-since dead. This is the same shit internet. Firefox doesn't magically bring you to a wondrous new world of memes, and sites can still collect enough data on your device usage to build massive advertising profiles for you, despite what one may have convinced themselves of with a plethora of extensions. Also feels weird calling out browsers with built-in AI, considering the CEO's dreams to integrate AI even deeper into Firefox.

  It's a cute ad, but the core messaging is flawed.

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  • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    While Firefox alone doesn’t transport you to that internet, I think the point is that browsers like Firefox are one of the pieces that makes up that older experience. Fediverse being another, I would say a lot of us are here because we prefer this style of social media.

    They have improved the intentionality of the AI features, I wish they had it opt-out and easily configurable from the start. I moved to Zen a while back (which still relies on Firefox pushing out updates)

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• Mossheart@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The internet I loved was a library. The internet now is a store.

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• somebody_to_love@lemmy.today ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s a great ad! Sadly the underlying message is simply not true. Regardless of the browser you use (and I do use firefox) the old internet is no longer there. Now it’s just four apps full of brain dead content. It’s quite sad actually.

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  • LostCarcosan@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The old internet is still around. It just doesn’t show very high on most search engines because of SEO bullshittery

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    • Jumi@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I started blocking sites like Facebook, Amazon, Instagram and every AI slop in my search results and it made everything so much better.

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  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You say, while adding content to an alternative part of the internet!

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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s still there, folks have just gotten so used to using those same four shit apps that they forgot how to surf the web.

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    • NihilSineNefas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Check out my Myspace page, while you’re there you can find me on Digg and google video! /s

      I used to read a lot of comics on the internet, pretty sure I hit mid to high 60s of bookmarks. 80% of them no longer exist.

      Even the newer sites for things like finding niche products have been wiped, I used Massdrop for an age to get some good tech, now its owned by corsair and sells absofuckinglutely nothing.

      The modern rules of the internet are “If it doesnt make more money than god then it’s not worth shit, if it does, then it’s bought out by a shady conglomerate then used to harvest your data”

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  • butwhyishischinabook@anarchist.nexus ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Good remember the newground days? When that was a “giant?” What a time.

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• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve been ride or die with FF since before Chrome was a thing. I keep Vivaldi installed for a few things, but FF is my daily driver.

  I know that Mozilla has made some decisions that I don’t agree with, but the Internet would be worse off without FF.

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  • TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same even on Android. If a site doesn’t work well with FF, Vivaldi usually works. Vivaldi is also better for PWAs.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      PWAs

      Poles With Attitudes?

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  • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Try waterfox.

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• mlg@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Firefox is controlled opposition for Chrome so that Google can claim they aren’t a monopoly in the browser scene. It’s why Mozilla always makes stupid decisions in spite of making an otherwise quality browser software.

  The internet of the past also didn’t need 4GB of RAM to render a page.

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• StillAlive@piefed.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How do you do fellow kids adults?

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• gothmog@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Firefox is pretty great, but I prefer privacy and security by default, which is why I run librewolf only over VPN. I could go TOR, but man that’s a pain.

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• Davel23@fedia.io ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tay Zonday and Overly Attached Girlfriend haven't aged a day.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s because they’re magic and wonderful and are being protected at all costs.

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• Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have to keep a version of Chrome around because Firefox refuses to support or won’t support web USB. But other than that my daily driver is Zen. Firefox based. And I wouldn’t trade it.

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  • BurgerBaron@quokk.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    HDR still not added unless you’re a Mac user, stereo audio only.

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    • Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Good to know as well. I don’t have a use case myself so I never bumped into it.

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I do this too, but I can very much respect the decision not to support any kind of hardware-level access from a web browser.

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    • Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      To an extent sure. But if their adding some ai MCP server to the browser etc. It’s going to be way more dangerous. So for me at least of kind of a wash.

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  • dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why… Why would you?

    I mean rhetorical, but god why. I want many layers between me and any internet browser.

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not OP, but it’s insanely useful for microcontroller stuff

      Was part of a team who created an esp32 based gadget for “regular” people at a convention, and it was super easy to set up a website that reflashed the device if they wanted to change something or messed something up

      No need for users to install weird sdks, tool chains or using a terminal

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  • desmosthenes@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    basically same here

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    • Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes Firefox has pretty much been my daily driver since before it was called Firefox. And the UI overhaul in zen definitely elevates it. I wish the Mozilla Foundation was less focused on AI and advertisement bullshit and more focused on things like UI improvements or web USB support etc. The underlying engine is pretty decent. But it’s the foundations behavior that really makes it not viable for a lot of people.

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• the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Mozilla is just enshiitifing on a different schedule than the rest, they will end up in the same place at the end. there are lots of pre-enshittifiaction firefox forks that are much better. Try one of those instead.

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  • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m using one of those, it still depends on Firefox being around

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    • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No not really, once it’s been forked the original can die and the forks will be just fine.

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lmao, they got chuck testa, i wonder how his business doing.

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• dEVbiKub@feddit.nu ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Omg, shoes

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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Goddammit, I blame you for the rabbit hole I am about to go down. And just for good measure I’ll have to add HAWPOfficial too.

    See what you made me do?!?!?!

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• reader@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  fuck mozilla

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  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    what is your preferred browser?

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    • reader@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      librewolf but links2 is my favorite

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Great ad! But here I am on Chrome and Edge with zero adverts, even on YouTube. (I know, tracking is a thing.)

  I don’t even know how I killed YT adverts. My Pihole?

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• uzername@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  never

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