Poor souls still don't understand the why choose Firefox. If I remember right opera now funded by some chinese company
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)
The issue is they’ve adopted the “sell user data” profit model that is super popular in all of tech.
You should not be complaining about opera because they’re owned by a Chinese company any more than you would complain about chrome being owned by a us company.
The complaint for both (and many other companies) should be the business model of selling user data is morally corrupt.
This obsession with selling out your users to make money is gross, and the absurd belief that that is the only path to income is absurd.
Plenty of companies still exist and make money by selling products rather than users and the twisted belief that you can only make money by "giving away" your product (and then selling out your users) that you're exhibiting is just insane.
It's especially laughable to point to a company like Opera (the modern one, not the original) which is just skinning chrome, and then say "they should be able to make a profit by selling out their users". If they are adding so little value, when the overwhelming majority of the work is done for free for them, that people don't want to actually pay for it, why should they make a profit? if their sales pitch involves misleading the consumers about what they are doing, why should they be making money?
Like 1M/yr spent on sponsoring 1000 videos by top tech youtubers is nothing when they have 600M/yr revenue and it would bring in a massive audience.
It's as if they're content with coasting and/or chasing even lower single digit market share?
If I ever see a FireFox marketing campaign on YouTube I will worry about them.
The best “marketing” they can do in my opinion is something they already do: MDN.
Now the ball is in Mozilla's court! I do wonder if they'd have to send their developers to the EU for on-device debugging as well.
For instance, Brave on iOS doesn't have built in TOR functionality like it does on non-mobile versions, so the browser is functionally limited to what Webkit allows.
- must be submitted as a separate binary, no migration path from existing WebKit version of a browser
- only available in the EU, unclear how non-EU web developers can test for compatibility
- ban on non-WebKit PWAs
I can imagine this one being really annoying as you are probably required to go through the entire app review process again (so they can make sure you didn't sneak anything cool in there)