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Jenny Telia wrote: The sheeple are cheering for features that help
advertisers track them... Mozilla has become exactly what they promised
to fight.

We get it. ItrCOs Wednesday, so itrCOs time for another lecture from the "Jenny Telia" collective about how anything less than compiling your own browser from source on a distinct machine in a Faraday cage is "selling
out."

LetrCOs look at the actual landscape in late 2025:

Manifest V3 is the law of the land. Chrome (and every Chromium wrapper
you claim is "better") has fully neutered uBlock Origin. If you are
browsing the modern web on a Chromium engine, you are seeing ads, or you
are running a DNS sinkhole that breaks half the sites you visit. Firefox
is currently the only major engine keeping the WebRequest API alive so
proper content blockers still work.

The "Anonym" distraction. You're still harping on the Anonym acquisition
from last year? PPA (Privacy Preserving Attribution) moves the
attribution logic client-side. It prevents the ad-server from
fingerprinting you. Is it perfect? No. But the alternative isn't "no tracking," the alternative is server-side tracking which you cannot
block or audit.

The Economic Reality. Developing a browser engine (Gecko) costs hundreds
of millions a year. If Mozilla doesn't diversify revenue away from the
Google Search royalty, they die. And when they die, the web becomes 100% Blink/Webkit.

Calling users "sheeple" for sticking with the only vendor that actually
allows them to block trackers is rich. You aren't fighting the system;
you're just making it easier for Google to own the remaining 3% of the
market.

If you want to use lynx or maintain your own fork of Pale Moon that
can't render half the HTML5 spec, be my guest. But don't pretend you're
saving the open web. You're just arranging deck chairs on the Titanic
while complaining about the color of the lifeboats.

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