So… how do?

You can’t: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1807866

Finally some dumb tracked advertising again!

… nor own.

Why deliberately go into vendor lock-in?

The thing is, you need multiple timings or “complex” calculations depending on placement of the ad or if the user has premium or not. All timestamps after the first slipstreamed ad will be off by the duration of the ad.

I wonder how this will be handled with creator-set timestamps in the video description. Those also will be off. Maybe SponsorBlock can hook into this somehow. Classic adblockers won’t block those ads, though.

Nope, never.

There will be issues with SponsorBlock in the future, though. Instead of adding the advertisements on client side, they will be added directly into the video stream on server side, messing up all timestamps.

It’s just an advertising company that knows to throw in some buzzwords.

Anonym was founded in 2022 by former Meta executives […]. The company was backed by [various venture capital corporations and multiple] strategic individual investors.

Your solution is a database or information management system.

I’ve never seen larger projects like Firefox hosted with Forgejo.

So why not use forejo, which is completely open source?

Absolutely! I’d always go the Forgejo route!

The thing is: I don’t see Firefox being hosted with Forgejo. The code base and amount of data might be way too massive. I see Forgejo as a forge for smaller projects.

It absolutely is. Yes. You can run and maintain it on an own server and it is open core (yeah 😥) using the MIT license - unlike GitHub where you have to rely 100% on the goodwill of Microsoft and everything is closed and locked behind a TOS.

Still better than a fully closed, 100% proprietary, cloud-only Microsoft service.

Sad to see they only use MS GitHub instead of selfhosting something like GitLab. Just another vendor lock-in.

Absolutely. But running after the latest hypetrain bullshit and managers cashing out on corporation income is more important to them.

Till this day the mobile browser absolutely sucks (you don’t have a tab bar and you can’t even set a homepage! What the hell?!) and the desktop browser gets slower with every update. But at least we now have AI nonsense, not stylable UI by default, and massive loads of telemetry and user tracking only configurable via about:config.

Firefox could be such an awesome browser if it would be modernized, made faster, and made fully configurable (mobile and desktop alike).

I’m not mad at the main devs or the volunteers. They do an awesome job! The state Firefox is in is entirely the fault of the foundation management.

I am not going to support the foundation.

In 2021, Mozilla Corporation generated $441 million in royalties, which represented almost 89% of its income.

Source

As of 2021, Mozilla (including the Foundation and the wholly owned For-Profit Corporations), had total assets worth over $1.1 Billion USD […]

Source (inb4 “bUt LunDukE iS bAd” - his personal and political views have nothing to do with his research analysis work in this article)

Most of the money does not go into the browser anyways.

That really hurts.

I remember, “back in the days” there was an extension that scraped a list of open proxies by country and then used one of those proxies based on the URL. So what you described was/is possible. Nowadays I’m lazy and have nothing like this set up anymore.

There also is a problem with open proxies: They could be extremely slow or not working at all but being listed as fast and online so any type of automatism would select them.

You also never know who’s running them. If you host a proxy or VPN overseas and use this one you at least have some control over what it does. The speed might also be better.

I guess it just boils down to how much money you’re willing to pay.

The problem with Tor is, that it is very slow because how it works. You also have zero control over the exit node. It could be run by a malicious actor scraping all your data and sending back false information. Tor is good for poking though government firewalls but not for security, so careful when entering confidential or personal data.

A proxy or VPN outside the EU?