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+** DONE Looking for a new web browser
+CLOSED: [2024-06-21 Fri 14:46]
+:PROPERTIES:
+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: leaving-firefix-behind
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER: :abstract Leaving Mozilla
+:END:
+
+For years,I've been saying "just use Firefox" like it was my personal mantra.
+I used Mozilla (back when it was a browser's name), then I moved to Firefox.
+After that, like everyone, I jumped to Chrome.
+In time however, Google changed.
+I've seen them as a vital part of the web, but now they became the /enemy/.
+They infested the web with surveillance based ad network.
+
+Firefox /was/ the alternative.
+It /was/ the good browser, developed by a great organization.
+
+But this also changed.
+/Mozilla/ is not the good guy anymore.
+The organization seems [[https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5765292/mozilla-sued-for-discrimination-by-former-ceo-to-be][rotten to the core]].
+They are investing in AI, and just recently they even bought [[https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/18/mozilla_buys_anonym_betting_privacy/][an ad broker]].
+All this wile [[https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5053290/mozilla-2023-annual-report-ceo-pay-skyrockets-while-firefox-marketshare-nosedives][their CEO pay skyrockets.]]
+
+Firefox is still a great browers.
+It requires a lot of tinkering to disable all the tracking, but it's nothing compared to Chrome.
+*Still*.
+
+But looking at this from higher perspective, I can not support wider Mozilla.
+Promoting /Firefox/ is promoting the Mozilla Board - and this not something that I can continue with clear consciousness.
+
+This forces me to look for a new browser.
+
+There are ready forks of /Firefox/ (like /Librewolf/) and /Chrome/.
+All of them seem like a better alternative, but I also despise the homogeneity of web browner engines.
+/Chromium/ is *owned* by Google, as Google sponsors most of the work there.
+A for-profit company having significant stake in making the web worse?
+Nope.
+This removes most of the alternatives.
+
+However, My interest peaks at the /real/ alternatives:
+- [[https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/][Nyxt]], because of LISP
+- [[https://ladybird.dev/][Ladybird]], as it's a rebel ship in the corporate infested wasteland
+- [[https://dillo-browser.github.io/][Dillo]], because of the same reasons as the above.
+
+The last two develop their own rendering engines, which have my full moral support.
+But it also means that they are not viable as /primary/ browser.
+And as for secondary I already use [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eww.html][Emacs Web Browser]], because of course I do.
+
+I will start using /Nyxt/ when binaries are ready to =pkg install= on FreeBSD, but for now?
+For now, I have a tough decision to make.
 
 ** DONE From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction
 CLOSED: [2024-06-20 Thu 20:23]