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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It's hard to understand the purpose of this. The difficulty of the project (i.e. complexity of the web) is the real problem that needs solving. We don't need another fork of the browser-verse. We need a fork of the web itself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Considering how much Google has entrenched itself into the Internet (see manifest v3 fiasco), I would argue that creating a new browser is a fork of the web

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I hope this pans out, because I've long ago lost hope on Firefox being a worthy alternative to Chromium.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

As Firefox will introduce Manifest V3 which will make ad-blockers unusable, I hope they will not implement that as well ... But since this is so new, this will not have any add-ons at all for the foreseeable future

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