Stay away from Mozilla and Firefox!!!

ℹ️ This blogpost is really just me taking out my frustrations on Mozilla and their dumb decisions. It’s not very well written, and some things i might’ve gotten wrong.

For something worth reading, check out the page about this on the Consumer Action Taskforce wiki, aswell as a list of alternative browsers at the end of this page.

I’m done. I’m genuinely done. I don’t wanna use Firefox anymore. Even if i strip out all telemetry bull$#!^ out of it, i just don’t want to use it, and neither should you. You wanna license my data and everything i do in the browser???¹ and have a “acceptable use policy” in a browser?²

There have been countless posts, blogs and YouTube videos around the internet talking about Mozilla’s questionable choices that they’ve made. In fact, they aren’t a browser company anymore, and they don’t care about Firefox. They focus more on advertising and AI (1). I’m sick and tired of AI, i don’t care about it, i don’t wanna hear about it anymore. AI shouldn’t be talked about as a trend, but rather as a tool that people can use instead of relying on search engines that sometimes just give you bull$#!^ results, straight up.

They also engage in… lemme check… in activism?

Lemme get this straight. They would rather engage in activism, advertising and AI than to focus on making the two products they’re most known for, Firefox and Thunderbird. NOBODY CARES. Literally nobody cares about what Mozilla is doing besides Firefox and Thunderbird. All they are really doing is giving the tech community something to talk about, because we have to talk about it and put Mozilla on the news. Like come on man, just make the damn browser and make it comparable to Chrome. They’re not even funding the development of Firefox!!! Go see for yourself, go to their funding page and CTRL+F on all the pages under it and see if Firefox is mentioned anywhere.

Don’t get me wrong, i’m all for the Web to not be controlled by big tech and filled with trackers and ads and crap like that, but you don’t do it by using words and giving us privacy alternatives to things we DON’T want to see be filled on the Web, we want a browser (and an email client) that doesn’t spy on us, doesn’t have telemetry, and doesn’t want to sell us some whatever service nobody is going to care about, and in the end it’ll just be a waste of money for the company.

Actions speak louder than words.

Anyways, i deleted my Firefox account and moved to Waterfox, which is Firefox based and is mostly free of any Mozilla crap. You can still sign in with a Firefox/Mozilla account but i already deleted that and will never use it again.

Is Waterfox any better than Firefox? Maybe, probably. They used to be owned by system1 which is a privacy-focused advertising company, but have split off them since July of 2023, and even they stated that they only wanted to work on Waterfox and not include any crap whatsoever³. How much can they be trusted? ¯\ _(ツ)_ /¯ but since the project separated anyway, that’s probably negligible now.

“Why not use Brave or Ungoogled Chromium?” If it hasn’t properly happened already⁴, uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chromium-based browsers, and i don’t like Chromium-based browsers in general. :P

I have nothing against Brave at all. The AI and Crypto stuff is super negligible. You really shouldn’t care about it at all, just disable it and move on. I don’t know how good Brave’s adblocking is when it comes to YouTube, but uBlock has been the go-to for me and if i can’t use it, then it isn’t worth my time. However i do have everything against the co-founder Brendan Eich for being a piece of $#!^ person⁵ and i hope he also loses his position at Brave.