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Swordsmyth
08-26-2018, 01:49 AM
Remember the day you found out Google was steeped in pure evil? So you sought out a different browser to escape the evil overlords that run Chrome. Many of us sought out Firefox from Mozilla, an organization with a strong history supporting free speech and open access to information.
But now Mozilla has joined the dark side. They’re jumping in bed with pure evil, pushing an “Information Trust Initiative” that would block independent media sources at the browser level while favoring corporate media giants like CNN, a cesspool of deliberately fake news.
Surprised? You shouldn’t be. The Mozilla Foundation also pushed for so-called “net neutrality,” a total sham agenda that the tech giants was crucial to make sure you would never be blocked from the information sources you wanted to visit. But today, it’s abundantly clear that tech giants simply de-platform anyone they want, instantly blocking that channel from all users, all while making a mockery of their “net neutrality” plea.
So which browsers are better alternatives? There are at least two good ones to check out right now:
BRAVE (https://brave.com) – Run by a pro-freedom group that supports small, independent publishers (and even has a mechanism for micropayments).
Vivaldi (https://vivaldi.com) – Run by a small, independent group with no ties to deep state funding or the NSA.


More at: https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-08-15-mozilla-firefox-goes-all-in-for-evil-pushes-corporate-news-collusion-to-silence-independent-media.html

Origanalist
08-26-2018, 05:33 AM
I have Brave installed, but need to change passwords on places I frequent as I forgot them apparently.

Also, related..Sites like Youtube without Censorship http://www.earnwithanish.com/sites-like-youtube-without-censorship/

timosman
09-24-2018, 06:03 PM
Vivaldi (https://vivaldi.com) – Run by a small, independent group with no ties to deep state funding or the NSA.

this^

jkr
09-24-2018, 06:25 PM
Bump

Grandmastersexsay
09-24-2018, 07:27 PM
I'm not supporting or not not supporting what they're doing, because I don't know what they're doing. Can I get any clarity at what "the browser level" means? Does that mean they are continuing to use Yahoo and google as their default search engine, which you should change anway, or are they actively blocking websites on the browser? These are obviously two opposite ends of the spectrum, with the latter being highly unlikely. The first sounds likely if it's a spin piece.

Firefox does offer the best addon support for many useful tools such as ad blockers or tracking blockers. I'd need more details to consider switching.

kpitcher
09-24-2018, 10:54 PM
The mozilla trust initiative was started over a year ago. The video linked to the site has no actual facts.. has "maybe", "possibly" on how mozilla will implement this initiative. Mozilla is trying to stop obviously fake news from propogating, their algorithm has not been finalized so until then it's a work in progress so until it's rolled out nothing much can be said.

However as Mozilla is an open source project people could actually get involved, give suggestions on how to improve, ensure the truth does get out, etc.


I find it funny that this video has a russian accented person that is upset that one of the more popular web browsers may be attempting to stop blatantly false news from spreading, and people are jumping right to believing him without hard evidence. How do people not know this video itself isn't a propaganda piece trying to ensure Russia keeps being able to influence things by discrediting Mozilla's efforts before they're completed?


For tech input, I use both mozilla and brave, I make a small profit on brave on a few websites from the micro transactions of the BAT crypto coin. It's basically chrome with added privacy built in. I have suggested this forum push brave as an added income stream but the logs don't show much of any usage with Brave.



However net neutrality was not a sham agenda. But that's a whole other discussion.

nikcers
09-24-2018, 11:20 PM
I understand the privacy concerns with Firefox, it has this stupid pocket thing that seems to read your mind. I turn off that stupid pocket feature as soon as I install it. It says that it doesn't use your data to suggest stuff to you but the websites might still have a way of monitoring their web traffic to see what traffic is coming from your internet address by the resources the app is requesting from the web server. I haven't looked into the software enough to see if its possible but its creepy enough for me to turn it off. I think they can do the same thing with the prefetching features that are built into a lot of browsers as well, but that's just my own conspiracy theory.