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Mozilla Say Google Search Deal Vital to Firefox's Survival

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      Well goodbye mozilla it wasn't great knowing you. Hopefully you are able to fuck over the devs and golden parachute your c-suite bastards one last time.

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        Well goodbye mozilla it wasn't great knowing you. Hopefully you are able to fuck over the devs and golden parachute your c-suite bastards one last time.

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        Maybe, but what are the odds of a fork taking off? It was started under the codename "Phoenix" and went by "Firebird" for some time before becoming "Firefox".

        Maybe it's time for a fork to rise from the ashes and take off...

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          Its interesting they don't have all the services Proton does. I'd pay them for a email and VPN combo.

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            Maybe, but what are the odds of a fork taking off? It was started under the codename "Phoenix" and went by "Firebird" for some time before becoming "Firefox".

            Maybe it's time for a fork to rise from the ashes and take off...

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            Any fork will die a slow and painful death of it can't get the necessary funding for project management and maintainer salaries.

            It will also dwindle, hard, towards irrelevancy.

            In world where the only viable browser is one owned and operated by Google.

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              Any fork will die a slow and painful death of it can't get the necessary funding for project management and maintainer salaries.

              It will also dwindle, hard, towards irrelevancy.

              In world where the only viable browser is one owned and operated by Google.

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              This is going to probably sound like a stupid idea, but I mean this earnestly:

              Can we just make Internet 2? Just a new underlying protocol with less restrictive browser requirements, sure you might need to use Chrome to log in to your bank, but we could just host everything else on the fedinet. Just like back in the old days, webrings hosted on closet servers and rented racks.

              Google didn't build the internet so why do they have so much clout about how it's run? We can just start over again with self hosting. This time we even have all the knowledge we gained from already doing it the first time. I'm picturing an entire second layer of internet unlinked with the first one. Kind of like onion sites I guess, the more I think about this the more I'm realizing that the tor network is probably exactly what I'm talking about. Just that, but instead of hosting pirated content or weird porn or bitcoin assassins it's just a low stakes noncorporate internet protocol. You probably won't want to do a lot of transactions on it, but social media or personal websites or video hosting would probably be fine.

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                This is going to probably sound like a stupid idea, but I mean this earnestly:

                Can we just make Internet 2? Just a new underlying protocol with less restrictive browser requirements, sure you might need to use Chrome to log in to your bank, but we could just host everything else on the fedinet. Just like back in the old days, webrings hosted on closet servers and rented racks.

                Google didn't build the internet so why do they have so much clout about how it's run? We can just start over again with self hosting. This time we even have all the knowledge we gained from already doing it the first time. I'm picturing an entire second layer of internet unlinked with the first one. Kind of like onion sites I guess, the more I think about this the more I'm realizing that the tor network is probably exactly what I'm talking about. Just that, but instead of hosting pirated content or weird porn or bitcoin assassins it's just a low stakes noncorporate internet protocol. You probably won't want to do a lot of transactions on it, but social media or personal websites or video hosting would probably be fine.

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                the internet isn't the issue, the issue is people wanting to make everything a webapp. If people could be satisfied with simple HTML pages none of this would be an issue.

                all of this "internet 5.0" talk is completely pointless.

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