"No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers" proclaims the Firefox homepage, but that's no longer true in Firefox 128.
Less than a month after acquiring the AdTech company Anonym, Mozilla has added special software co-authored by Meta and built for the advertising industry directly to the latest release
A lot of web browsers use chromium, which is the chrome engine. So anything that they want to add from the new manifest will eventually be added the engine. Firefox had a different engine, so they were not affected by the new manifest. However, they will sell our data from now on, so the Firefox engine is also not a choice anymore.
Is the web engine an issue about privacy ? Or are these things implemented in front ends instead ? Sorry for my ignorance.
A lot of web browsers use chromium, which is the chrome engine. So anything that they want to add from the new manifest will eventually be added the engine. Firefox had a different engine, so they were not affected by the new manifest. However, they will sell our data from now on, so the Firefox engine is also not a choice anymore.
So that leaves not a lot of options.