> Google has been pushing changes to the Web that would make it more difficult to block cookie banners and, more generally, to filter out unwanted Web content (such as intrusive images, videos, ads, and tracking scripts). Google’s WebBundles proposal, for example, will make it easier for sites to evade content blockers. Their Manifest v3 changes remove vital capabilities from privacy-protecting browser extensions.
Allowing Google to buy DoubleClick in 2007 was absurd and scandalous.
If it's now too late to undo that, it's vital for the future of the web that Chrome be separated from Google.
I have no idea how we achieve that, but I'm pretty sure that if we don't, we're doomed.
Yeah, and only a few million people had acess to slow ass speeds that took you days to download a small video.
Google and Facebook brought billions of people to the internet and gave them access to information they would otherwise have no access too. Thanks to them selling ads.
How would YouTube which give everyone free access to billions and billions of hours of content for free be possible without ads?
Donating to the Mozilla Foundation and to the EFF have been my strategy for this. I know that $20/month doesn't seem like a lot but it does add up at scale. If everybody reading this thread donated to those organizations, it would be a solid boost for them. (10k people * 240 = $2.4m per year)
I would do this right now if there was an option to donate to _firefox_ development and not to sponser exec bonus or whatever side project they toy around with.
Firefox is developed by the Mozilla Corporation, an entity owned by the Mozilla Foundation. Donations to the Foundation go to woke activism and the like, not so much to software development. Buying add-on services to Firefox is the proper way to send money to the organization that actually builds the browser and to help it become more independent from Google as a funding source.
Allowing Google to buy DoubleClick in 2007 was absurd and scandalous.
If it's now too late to undo that, it's vital for the future of the web that Chrome be separated from Google.
I have no idea how we achieve that, but I'm pretty sure that if we don't, we're doomed.