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Mozilla is removing "Does Firefox sell your personal data?" in anticpation of ToS change (github.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The forks only keep existing thanks to Mozilla development, they can't actually maintain a browser engine, just tidy up a bit around the edges. If people drop Firefox altogether and it dies, so do the forks. Not saying that it's wrong to do that. But it makes me worried for the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hopefully, someone would pick up the slack.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hopefully, but it is a huge project, it is really hard to overstate just how much work it is. There are a few hundred very good programmers working on FF full-time at Mozilla. To be a community project it would have to be thousands of people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What a coincidence, we happen to have thousands of independent developers who use Linux and Firefox every day!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

How is Linux related here?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

Because Firefox is the default browser on virtually all Linux distros, and has a nearly rabid fanbase among Linux users.