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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Do you trust Brave company and their products: Browser, Search, VPN, etc..? (upload.wikimedia.org)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I can see that you’re enthusiast and care about firefox, it’s thanks to people like you that these tools get better. But me, for lack of better words, can’t bring myself to care that much about any piece of software that ain’t related to my job, nevermind reporting issues. I’ll use whatever gives me less trouble in my personal time, if in the future things change for chromium, I’ll come back to firefox.

When I get home I’ll check my extensions and pass you the ones that don’t exist for firefox. Right now the only one I remember isn’t really an extension, it’s the text to speech function of Edge, that uses their AI voices.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Thanks for agreeing to look into this. It's very frustrating when there are so many users claiming certain add-ons are missing in Firefox without ever being able to provide specific examples. It's the same thing I see when people mention web sites breaking on Firefox, but no one can ever provide links so someone who is interested in fixing things can help.

And I do understand not feeling led to devote time and energy to troubleshooting. That's one reason I'd like to understand what you're looking for. I enjoy spending time in shared spaces with some very active add-on developers as well as communities like the Mozilla forums, so I'd be happy to share anything people feel is missing on your behalf.

Also, I do understand finding certain features convenient that Microsoft and Google can provide, but I'm also aware that some of these features come at the cost of our personal data and privacy, which is also a line one has to draw for oneself. I even know people who won't join Lemmy due to concerns, so I understand this is a personal choice. It's just nice to know we have such choices and that they are not forced on us.

Cheers.