"No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers" proclaims the Firefox homepage, but that's no longer true in Firefox 128. Less than a month after acquiring the AdTech company Anonym, Mozilla has added special software co-authored by Meta and built for the advertising industry directly to the latest release
  • @tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•4 months ago

    Browsers are an unsustainable mess of reckless feature creep. At some point we may all transition from using websites at all.

      • @tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•4 months ago

        Away from the all-in-one solution browser to using apps for each discrete feature. Like using a video player already on the OS to play videos or using a Gemini capsule to navigate to text-only “sites”.