@tchambers Found a pretty nice alternative with @Waterfox - they seem to do a pretty decent job with their privacy: https://www.waterfox.net/docs/policies/privacy/

@tchambers The entire browser world has been enshittiified. None of them are truly private. They all have bolted on crap from crypto wallets to AI models and other whimsical junk to say ‘Ooo look at me”!

I get that boutique and small browser makers have to make money somehow. But there has to be a better way. Not that I can offer up anything helpful on this front.

@tchambers @Vivaldi sigh

@tchambers –

That headline, particularly the definition of "your data," deserves some scrutiny. The claim is that PPA does not involve the transmission of any personal data to advertisers. I think the main objection available here is the "on by default" status of the option – so all encouragement to anyone attempting to raise awareness and clarity around the feature.

@tchambers Safari has the same setting. This is just as troubling I assume?

@tchambers @Vivaldi 🙏🙏🙏

@tchambers @Vivaldi the problem is, #Firefox is free. How do they pay their staff? 🤷‍♂️

Reminds me of Opera’s agreement with Google enabling their search by default, requiring a workaround that is far from obvious to find.

Love Vivaldi. For school systems on a Mac that “require” Chrome, using Vivaldi instead has always worked, rather than pollute a MacOS with sh8tty Google spyware.

It’s the same argument for supporting a Mastodon instance without advertising.

@tchambers I wouldn't dispute that #Mozilla goofed up here, but based on my best understanding of what #Firefox PPA actually does, I believe that headline (and a good chunk of the article) is extremely misleading, to the point of being irresponsible. The data that advertisers get looks to be stuff like "approximately 125 people saw <a particular ad> on <a particular website> in the past two weeks before purchasing <a particular product>", and only in a very loose interpretation could that be called "your data".

@tchambers @Vivaldi, it’s so frustrating right now.

I don’t want to, nor will I, use a Chromium-based engine. But Firefox is pretty much the only other big player out there (that supports multiple platforms), and it’s just painful to see how incompetent Mozilla seems to be at doing its job.