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I have no issues with Brave after disabling all of their crypto stuff and widgets. It's safer, smoother, and much better at ad-blocking than bare Firefox. I don't care about CNAME-uncloaking by uBlock Origin, because that's already being taken care of by NextDNS at OS level.

Svperstar 1 hour ago parent favorite on: Why uBlock Origin works best on Firefox spoiled by FF+uBlock and I can't tolerate all the distractions. I run FF+uBlock on my S21 Ultra. Works just like the desktop. Sedatk 1 hour ago. Not possible with an iPhone, I presume. Ublock Origin on FF stoped blocking ads. Posted by 19 minutes ago. Ublock Origin on FF stoped blocking ads. I'm using FF 86 and for some reason it stopped blocking ads today on several sites. Is it a new bug? Youtube suddenly has ads agan, for example. I had FF 65.0.2 and uBlock Origin 1.16.20 and everything worked. Updated to FF 66.0.2 and had some blocking issues. I updated to uBlock Origin 1.18.16 and pages loaded very slowly. I reset uBlock as was suggested elsewhere but it did not help. Rolled back to FF 65.0.2 and kept uBlock 1.18.16 and everything is. Anyone that has used Nightly recently will agree that Nighlty performs better than WF And FF. I can’t think of a single parameter where 52esr is better than v55, not one. I currently have WF, FF v56, and Nightly installed and I used FF ESR for a few years before updating to the release channel when v54 was released.

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I've been a daily user and advocate of Firefox since Opera changed to using Chromium. But recently I've grown tired of their privacy hypocrisy and company decisions that I've uninstalled it and started to try out Edge/Brave/Vivaldi as my daily. It has pained me to do this as FF was my last safe haven away from Chromium.

If you dig into some settings and follow tech news, I have begun to question some of Mozilla's controversial settings, deals with 3rd parties and their political blog posts. I also have a problem with the CEO making $3m per year yet a continued market share decline since she came on.

Just a few of the things off the top of my head that I feel betray my trust of Firefox (all of these pertain to default Windows install):

1) Enabled by default all of your website DNS requests going to Cloudflare with a 'promise' this information is not being used or sold. We all know how solid this promise has been for other large tech companies. All under the promotion that DoH protects you from your own ISP.

2) Upon install, FF installs a scheduled service that runs daily. From what I've found out, that service is sending back to Mozilla what your default browser is on YOUR PC (why is that their business). This scheduled service remains on your PC even after uninstalling Firefox and continues to run daily.

3) Enabled by default are Browser Studies and testing a clean install one is already installed and active called 'F100 Snippets'. Studies allow the Firefox team to install stuff right to your browser whenever they want, to gather telemetry .

4) 'Recommended extensions' enabled by default. Got a nag for a recommended extension after few days of browsing. So FF must be scanning your browsing history in order for this to work?

5) this result: https://brave.com/brave-tops-browser-first-run-network-traff... . While it was from 2019 so needs to be updated, but upon first-run I was shocked at the results for FF here.

6) Firefox on Android has a known tracker embedded and enabled by default called Leanplum. From Mozilla's own website they state 'Leanplum is a mobile marketing vendor'

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I'd love to support and use FF solely again, but I think they need some serious shaking up, starting with a new CEO (who allows this stuff).