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Okay so I just signed up for the beta of their web browser, why not give it a shot, right?

It turns out that its just a reskin of mobile Firefox, with an extremely, and I mean extremely, limited if-then "extensions" feature. Doing a great job at "showcasing the web's infinite extensibility and customizability".

They also tout the (Firefox's) adblocker, even going as far as to say it will "Block every ad..." on their marketing page (technically impossible).

Just because a company has an orange Y on their homepage doesn't mean their product is good. I'm not saying that it won't be good in the future, but steer clear for now.

Money got us into the mess we are in[1], it is up to the real[2] community to get us out.

[1] Standardized DRM, the impossibility of building a browser engine, etc

[2] By "real" I don't mean corporations that symbolically showcase their "<3 of open source", while profiting off of it

parent chewzerita 6 years ago

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