they are services that give people a lot more daily benefit over some crypto coin that is pretty much only used on brave, all while supporting an actual independent browser services like mozilla vpn, relay, and private network are decent alternatives to others, and i really hope they do succeed. Plus, they are expanding their product lineup to start making more of their own money. it barely affects the end user (you can change it with like 3 clicks) and it helps them stay as a competitor to google - their own issues aside. so compared to this, i’m pretty ok with mozilla getting millions just by setting a default search engine.

brave uses a chromium base, and they will have to follow googles lead on it for the most part. I wouldn’t diss mozilla for being that dependent on google in the first place.

an average user shouldn't be expected to only run their browser in a third party sandbox to have security, and even if they were, i doubt they would to use them as a way to discredit madaidan's arguments, and then to ignore them to suggest your own alternative - which is essentially a band aid fix specific to windows - is a little inconsistent. you can decide on your own whether or not the security risk is worth the privacy gains and configurability of firefox (i'll admit it i even flip between them), but you can't throw away valid criticisms of its security compared to chromium.Īnd on the topic of sandboxie plus: the 'average users' you mentioned earlier in this comment won't be using it. those are far from 'moot or irrelevant' in every day use, especially for those who go anywhere outside of the regular, well known websites. firefox lacks in important technologies to protect users, like sandboxing (especially outside of windows) and memory partitioning. Some of them, yeah maybe but today we live in world where everyday users can have major exploits levied against them just by visiting a website, and browsers need to be secure.

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