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What a fantastic project. It’s FOSS like this that makes the world go round. If only the original vision of the internet had been fulfilled, we’d have hundreds more projects like it.



There are hundreds more projects like it. Projects like GIMP, ImageMagick, Apache, curl, GCC, LLVM, Firefox, Thunderbird, KDE, Linux, the BSDs, etc., etc.

There are many massively useful things available as free and open source software.


>Firefox

Definitely not. It certainly no longer belongs in "the original vision of the internet" category. Not when it wants to be a part of evil forces seeking to police the internet.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...

https://www.eutimes.net/2021/01/thousands-are-uninstalling-f...

https://reclaimthenet.org/firefox-maker-mozilla-calls-for-mo...


But Firefox protects you from advertising networks the best. uBlock Origin works best in Firefox:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

Sounds like "the original vision of the internet" to me.


I initially did not want to bring this up, but Firefox literally changed my default search engine from DuckDuckGo to Google after I updated it yesterday.

No opt-in, no user input, no warning, no nothing. Just shoved Google down the user's throat.

Do you know where Mozilla gets its money from?


I don't think that was due to Mozilla pushing Google. I have Firefox configured with DuckDuckGo on all my devices and this has never happened to me on an update.


I update Firefox all the time and it doesn't change my default search engine. Now what?

Are you using Mozilla's Firefox builds or a Linux distribution's builds of Firefox?


Win10 119.0.1 (64-bit)


Doesn't happen for me on Windows or macOS. It sounds a lot like you're construing an anecdotal incident as a grand conspiracy.


Better than all other major browsers != good

Since the only real competition is chromium, safari, and edge, the bar is astoundingly low.


You mean the least worst?


No, I mean the best. Firefox provides features that uBlock Origin uses that other browsers don't provide.


Thank you!


And blocking all extensions by default on Firefox mobile.... At least you can create an add-on collection to bring them back but Mozilla is evil nowadays.


Hrm: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/11/01/is-your-extension...

They're doing exactly the opposite of what you think they're doing.


What is the original vision of the internet?


Porn. Porn everywhere. And cat videos. But mostly porn.



A government project to allow researchers to access distant mainframes.


Effective ways for US military to communicate between missile silos?


After that, i'd say ITS and their networked machine list sharing code and cool hacks, being the proto free-software movement.


Why do people bring up some vague ideology? Imagine a world without the internet being invented, what a nice world to live now.


That any two consenting parties may communicate directly with one another.




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