Mozilla Firefox is officially dead.
My back is officially turned.
What options remain?
For now I'm probably going to be using Gnome Web (i.e. Epiphany) for most straightforward web browsing. It works more than well enough for the stuff I do. Mobile version for Android? Does it exist? iOS?
I'll use Vivaldi for lame "modern" sites that a "simple" browser like Epiphany can't render properly. Mobile?
We'll see how far that goes. This may be less and less of an issue. The big player sites like Google, Meta, etc. are not somewhere I tend to visit.
Banking sites are a mixed bag of necessity.
I'm about to let my Amazon Prime account lapse on its yearly renewal since I won't use them any more.
At least Vivaldi seems to be a decent organization. Technology is based on Chromium though - and this is why I haven't started using it.
I will need to investigate Vivaldi's built-in adblocking since manifest v2 isn't a thing under Chromium any more.
I used to care about keeping the Mozilla rendering engine alive and relevant but now not so much.
The Firefox forks I've tried have been a mixed bag of whether their new versions follow re-enabling the privacy invasive things that Mozilla upstream does when it sends out a new version.
Time to leave them behind as well I guess.
A lot will depend on how much I miss ublock origin.
If there is a mass exodus from all the Firefox based forks then ublock may cease to exist.
There's a rant in there about pi-holing all browsers but I don't have it in me ATM.
(Posted with Epipany)
https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/114071999359445580
#Mozilla #Firefox #Gnome #Web #Epiphany #Vivaldi #internet #SocialMedia #ublock #ublockorigin #browser #Google #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Amazon #Chrome #Chromium #Privacy #Rights #DRM #DataSovereignty #Sovereignty #Fork #Floorp #LibreWolf #WaterFox #ZenBrowser #AdBlock
On mobile, I'm testing #ironfox that can be downloaded and updated through #Obtainium, which is on Fdroid.
"Major changes coming to federal govt, led by Musk's #DOGE:
Most significant move to dismiss fed WKRs now underway. Agencies must submit plans to significantly reduce staff size by Mar 13
SSA under instruction to cut staff in half; GSA says ts. there are imminent
Labor Dept eyes gutting EEOC office by 90%
Mass lease CXLs of fed bldgs
underway. +100 IRS leases to be nixed.
Why #Trump & #Musk wanted unified front today with CAB Secs"
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#USPol #Recession IS IMMINENT🚨
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/26/doge-federal-workforce-firings-job-cuts/
#GoDOGE!
"DOGE says it's now saved $65B in federal funds, but that's still impossible to verify. It only provides records for $9.6B in savings from contract terminations."
Neither Trump, nor Musk, can keep track of their egregious lies that are destroying public servants' livelihoods & lives.
#Trump #Musk #Grift #DOGE #USPol #Resist
https://abcnews.go.com/US/doge-now-saved-65b-federal-funds-impossible-verify/story?id=119174949
Notice how she doesn't mention #DOGE destroying "public services" as the main issue; her main objection is that the gravy train, pork barrel livelihood of the armies of bureaucratic parasites and their cronies is being infringed.😂
Go team #DOGE!👍
"DOGE says it's now saved $65B in federal funds, but that's still impossible to verify. It only provides records for $9.6B in savings from contract terminations."
Neither Trump, nor Musk, can keep track of their egregious lies that are destroying public servants' livelihoods & lives.
#Trump #Musk #Grift #DOGE #USPol #Resist
https://abcnews.go.com/US/doge-now-saved-65b-federal-funds-impossible-verify/story?id=119174949
"Public servants", indeed!
😂😂😂
Besides in gangsterment, where else are there " servants" that can take as much as they wish from their masters, hire as many other servants as they wish , take on as much debt as they wish in their masters' name, even launch mass murders for dubious reasons in their masters' name, create all kinds of abusive rules that their masters have to follow, and so on?😂
Fortunately, most places outside the #US, the bureaucrats are called "civil servants", because THEY SERVE the GOVERNMENT - NOT THE " PUBLIC"!
#HUD is another one of the agencies that is rather clearly unconstitutional under your "law of the land", as explained about NASA:
While #Musk is touting cuts to govt, the new admin has already delivered $86 million to SpaceX since the inauguration."
Amid a 5% reduction in NASA’s WF, the Trump admin: obligated >$86M worth of NASA💰to SpaceX.
He has multiple conflicts of interest, bought the presidency for #Trump, spews #DOGE's false claims 24/7 on X, threatens judges/others who displease or rule against the admin or him, sinisterly demands #firings of fed WKRs for govt💰➡️ to his ventures...
#USPol
https://www.levernews.com/musks-empire-is-reaping-2-million-per-day-from-trump/
The #American #brainwash cradle to grave is that they have a "limited #government of enumerated powers" under their #constitution.
Given that, it's doubtful that it was even #legal to create #NASA under the "general welfare" clause of that already dubious document, by splitting civilian aeronautics research from the military.
Its creation shows well that their "checks and balances" system doesn't actually work, when interests of large MI Complex cronies are involved.
As we see in #SpaceX, civilians are perfectly capable of creating civilian space programs, even better than bureaucrats.
So, it was just the cancerous growth of American bureaucracy that created NASA, and it should be completely defUnded by #DOGE.
The 3 I mentioned, were Nano S models.
The several HW1 and original Nano units I bought and promoted, didn't have enough time to fail, because @LedherHQ stopped supporting them so quickly.😡
Every "#president" is "rogue", because they are the sole, actual #anarchists on this #PrisonPlanet!
There's literally no authority above them, and your fake " Checks and Balances" are a fraud from the beginning!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhSqzANQvbk
#idiocracy #democracy #USA #Constitution #POTUS #SCOTUS
Yes, if HM Army must conduct major mass murders in #Europe again without the Warshington gang, not likely to be an institution where to survive to collect welfare.
As we see, the invading #Russian army can make any Western army run out of cannon shot, before they run out of cannon fodder.
Double that for any engagement with the #CCP army, as they demonstrated in #Korea and #Vietnam.
Perhaps, the "if not shot or hanged, you'll get knighted" #HMA of Lord Byron's time might return yet!🤔😂
Then, as the #EU and #UA narrative goes, #Westminster shall be forced to loot their welfare recipients to prepare for another Invasion of Britain by #Putin this time.
Now that the #Yanks are pulling out of #Europe, shall be up to the Royal #Army to do most of the #EU defence, as they once did.
So, #conscription #slavery - perhaps #Switzerland style - seems more likely than welfare recipients.🤔
A separate match for #female #MPs and #bureaucrats shall naturally double the #HMRC revenue!
The #British #football match that would raise much revenue would be #Westminster Tossers vs. #Whitehall Wankers!
(#NHS shall need many meat wagons ready, since few such ballers would survive such a match. Would be #Taxes well spent on that #government reduction.)
#Reform #UK #Britain #Commonwealth
Regardless of beneficiaries, seems that defence should justifiably be somewhere near 90% of the budget.
That it is not, shows how much vote buying goes on through pork barrel and gravy train spending.
Gm nostriches, I am a massive fan of nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx and nostr:npub16le69k9hwapnjfhz89wnzkvf96z8n6r34qqwgq0sglas3tgh7v4sp9ffxj shows, but I wince every time their Ledger adverts come on, I appreciate they have contracts to run and smile when each advert makes absolutely no reference to any of the products they offer, but these adverts have consequences.
I’m still getting messages and phone calls from them (well not actually them), years after stopping using the product, appreciate this is out of ledger’s hands, but is it just emails or phonecalls I’ll get from “ledger”? Today the email had my home address in it!!!!! should I expect a knock on the door from a “ledger” representative next?
I gave my information away before I’d learnt enough, I fucked up, but I was influenced by adverts on the podcasts I was learning from. Now, maybe dark, but an honest question all the same. When someone turns up to my house, forces their way in, cuts off a finger or worse. Will Ledger be liable? Will Ledger compensate my family for leaking my data?
nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp is there any connection between physical attacks a people using ledger? Happy to be nostr:npub12ctjk5lhxp6sks8x83gpk9sx3hvk5fz70uz4ze6uplkfs9lwjmsq2rc5ky only now. nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8
Please tell me there will be an end to hearing “the super easy ledger live software” during the ads I’m desperately trying to skip. They influence actions that create risks and attack vectors. I’ve not always be concerned of these things, but now I’m dealing with the consequences. Stay frosty freaks. #bitcoin #coldcard #grownostr
Of the 3 ledgers I had, 2 failed within just a few years, with rather infrequent use. I know others like me.
They rug pulled their earliest customers, who bought their initial HW1 and Nano products, by completely dropping support for them in favour of supporting #shitcoins.👎😡
Still get incredible amount of crypto spam from their hacked customer database.😡
I recommend @LedgerHQ only to people I don't like.
The Peter #McCormack Show: Charlotte #Gill on #UK #Doge - How the #Government Wastes Your #Tax #Money - PMQ052
Episode webpage: https://mrobnoxious.libsyn.com/charlotte-gill-on-uk-doge-how-the-government-wastes-your-tax-money-pmq052
Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/whatbitcoindid/TPMS_-_Charlotte_Gill_Pod_Audio_3.mp3
#sheeple #maoism #socialism #DEI
That's because the #Parliament and gangsterments in general are the main sources of #misinformation through #MM and big tech!💯
As an "expert", you know that, especially if you receive " public" funding...😉
If so, you are also a biased, knowing and willing purveyor of #propaganda.
Why #Britain's best era is in the past and never to return!
#Socialism roots run deep in #UK!
That #Orwell was #British was not a coincidence!
The #Westminster tossers and #Whitehall wankers are using his and the book below as a road map and instruction manual!😡
IEA #Podcast: 1934's Lost UK #Socialist Blueprint | #IEA Briefing
Episode webpage: https://insider.iea.org.uk/p/1934s-lost-uk-socialist-blueprint
Media file: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/157457614/2593c57957b7a4333ae20c8f2889f607.mp3