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Yes like most things this is misunderstood, bandwagoned and thus overblown.
Getting tired of social media. Even Lemmy.
The other one is the Firefox tou update... Not saying it won't eventually be a problem but as of today it's not sending your data to Mozilla. You have time to see how this pans out.
Let's see how this plays out.
As someone who has never used Firefox only librewolf/mull/ironfox this analogy is asinine. Switching browsers is trivial and not at all like dealing with the threat of violence. It's exactly bullshit like this that is tiring. No one is really thinking just making unintelligent quips and reactions or parroting the bullshit of others.
Do you understand what an analogy is?
Anyways, Firefox is the project. All of those other "projects" are mostly configuration changes of the upstream project- not even code changes.
When Firefox decides to become hostile to those "other" browsers you use- they'll be able to do fuck all about it.
Yes, hence it being a shit one.
No, for example fennec for fdroid which is the base for mull or ironfox has multiple code deletes to remove unsolicited data sent to Google.
That's not how open Source works...
These projects focusing on configuration changes and feature removal demonstrates their lack of creative potential.
Who cares if they fork? They don't have the ability to do anything but sit on dead code at that point.