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I'd rather use (and build for) any WebKit browser over Firefox, so I'm hoping Microsoft Edge does not implement the "Chrome extension manifest v3" and that they release Edge for Linux ASAP.

Aside from my feelings about the technical qualities of their products - Mozilla is clearly not more trustworthy than Google or Microsoft either since they put non-removable ads and tracking extensions directly into Firefox and lock developers out of their extension store for purely political reasons.

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That's a bold accusation and would make the case that there's no real difference between Chrome and Firefox, can you point to the evidence that supports this?

Citation? I've never heard of that.

Look up Firefox Pocket and Firefox Gab/Dissenter.

Pocket, the easy to enable/disable way to save websites for reading later, and Gab, the far-right social network, as exposed by Columbia Journalism Review?

Pocket which by default suggests "pocket worthy" articles and ads on the new tab page (which after a while you get a feel for what "pocket worthy" actually means).

The other day I got one that made the case that both private schools and homeschooling should be illegal.

>Pocket

I don't follow. How does a built in extension to save pages to a cloud account equate with the systematic and pervasive abuses of privacy that are Google's business model?

>Gab

I was not aware of this platform. Here are some lovely snippets from Wikipedia:

>Gab stated that conservative, libertarian, nationalist and populist internet users were its target markets.

What a lovely "free speech" platform. Can't imagine why it was "censored", where by censored we actually mean: we will not distribute this on our website, though you are still free to install it on your machine if you want. Come on... Porn is also legal, and also not available on the Firefox website, and also freely available for you to get elsewhere.

Personally, I think that Gab is a dumpster fire that it's best to avoid, yet I am very sensitive to browsers making content/editorial decisions for their users. From a security perspective teaching users to jump around browser protections is never a good idea. It's going to bite us in the butt at some point.

Ignoring the fact that pocket is a company with dozens of employees who curate content and calling it just an extension to save pages is deeply disingenuous. If you're right, why lie? Pocket suggests articles and lets you save them.

I'd be mad except that I often find the suggestions interesting. Don't really get the whole save for later thing, sounds like bookmarks.

Firefox (as well as Chrome) has blocked the Dissenter add-on because it supposedly violates their community standards.

Firefox hasn't blocked the extension as far as I know, they're "merely" not offering it on AMO anymore. You can still install it via the author's website.

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