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Google lost its ad monopoly trial, Mozilla is concerned about the future of the company:
https://betanews.com/2025/04/18/google-has-lost-its-ad-tech-monopoly-trial-and-mozilla-is-scared/
("If the Department of Justice truly wants to fix competition, they can’t solve one problem by creating another." - as much as I dislike Mozilla, I think they are mostly right here. It was a really poorly made decision, and won't solve anything, as for Mozilla, they will probably get paid by Microsoft to make Bing the default in Firefox, or slowly go bankrupt, and leave the Gecko engine to the community which won't have enough capacity to compete with Google (or if they will be forced to sell Chrome and step down from the Chromium project, it will likely be Microsoft, to maybe kill off Chrome like they did with Skype and Atom, and take control of Chromium), Firefox and its forks will be the next Internet Explorers...)
("Gecko powers Firefox (and other independent browsers) and puts privacy and people first." - nah, unfortunately Firefox is pretty far from a privacy-respecting browser nowadays. A real privacy browser should be private without any manual hardening. But it needs to stay alive because it's the base for some real privacy browsers like LibreWolf.)
(There's quite a lot of aspect of this whole Google thing, maybe it deserves a separate post.)

Proton Pass now has the option to attach files to cards, logins, notes and identity items:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/4/proton-pass-introduces-file-attachment-feature/

Tor Browser 14.5 released with Connection Assist on Android for users in restricted regions, redesigned logs on desktop etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/4/tor-browser-14-5-brings-connection-assist-to-android-support-for-new-languages-and-more/

VirtualBox 7.1.8 released with initial support for Linux kernel 6.14 in Guest Additions, bug fixes:
https://9to5linux.com/virtualbox-7-1-8-released-with-initial-support-for-linux-kernel-6-14

Forgejo v11.0 released with overview of quotas in the user interface, ability to regenerate access tokens, indication if a pull request is editable, additional boolean operators when searching with an indexer etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/4/self-hosted-forge-software-forgejo-releases-v11-0-with-new-features-and-enhancements/

(Linux news in original post)

@adisonverlice The #TorBrowser consists in a modified Mozilla Firefox ESR web browser, the TorButton, TorLauncher, NoScript and the Tor proxy. So you could have ticked the fourth line from the start: "motorised by Gecko".

Sorry for the complication.

@alternativeto I use @torproject / #TorBrowser as my #default #browser simply because #Tor is better than any #VPN, is free and secure as well as improving performance on spotty connections like #2G networks!

• I've been using that for 15+ years now!

@JessTheUnstill @bohwaz @punkfairie @ajsadauskas @tomiahonen @fuchsiii

But I also consider why @torproject hasn't done so:

• Because they'd rather focus on the few projects they can maintain at their staffing and budget than become the next "Apache Foundation" piling up #Abandonware.

And lets be honest @tails_live / @tails / #Tails is way more important to maintain as with #TorBrowser, literally human lives depend on it!

@bohwaz @punkfairie @ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill @tomiahonen @fuchsiii that's a general problem with #Mozilla.

• They completely loose #focus and I think they should hand over #Firefox to @torproject and turn #TorBrowser into the Upstream...

@ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill @tomiahonen @fuchsiii obviously, that would've been a good standard for everyone, given that almost all non-#Gaming #Apps these days are #WebApps and at that point we'd not have 100+ MB #bloatware that essentially just loads a #Website and can't even cache shit!

• /me stares angrily at #Cordova *

Personally I believe the @europarl_en & @EUCommission could do that and establish as well as enforce an #EC #norm, just as they did with #USBc, #CCS2 and #GDPR!

• It's just lack of political #pressure and #will to actually deal with the #AntiCompetitive-ness of #GAFAMs and given #Microsoft got forced into the #BrowserChoice setup in #WindowsXP & #Windows7, I demand the same for #iOS, #macOS and #Windows11 to include not only #Firefox & #Chrome but also #TorBrowser!

#Android needs to be better as in being more than just the "lesser evil" compared to iOS!

@mixel @korporal @Artikel5eV Wenn dein Browser beim Aufruf einer Website abstürzt, ist dein Browser kaputt. Ich benutze unter Android inzwischen andere Firefox-Forks: #Ironfox oder #TorBrowser. Beide zeigen https://artikel5ev.de/ ohne Probleme an. Vielleicht braucht dein Telefon mehr RAM?

@CppGuy @fesshole the only thibg you can do is force Google to nuke history and take it as lession to use #DuckDuckGo's #OnionService on @torproject / #TorBrowser instead.

@ai6yr @briankrebs OFC this targets #TechIlliterates and the only effective means here are:

1. Teach #TechLiteracy instead of consumerism.
2. Mandate #confirmation & #notification - #PopUp|s for every use of #Clipboard (similar to #webcam use by websites)...
3. Ban #JavaScript - seriously!
4. Ban #Windows, because it's a #Govware, espechally since #Windows10 and even more so on #Windows11 that is *insecure in every configuration!
5. Put #TechIlliterates before a system they can't feck up. I.e. @tails_live @tails / #Tails for that reason alone (can't run such commands if they neither got #root nor any #persistent #storage to target).
6. Normalize the use of @torproject #TorBrowser!
7. #Teach #tech #literacy instead of #consumerism!
8. Ban #GAFAMs and their shitty products!
9. Migrate every #TechIlliterate to #Linux and don't give them administrative privilegues.
10. Teach tech literacy instead of consumerism!

From 8.35 TiB to 8.70 TiB! Yay!

This one's now more accurate since it's been more than a week now.

Goddamn... 8.70 TiB. That's so much bandwidth coming from a mere home network but like I've said, WE REALLY HAVE UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH !!!