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Google lost its ad monopoly trial, Mozilla is concerned about the future of the company:
betanews.com/2025/04/18/google
("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:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/4/

Tor Browser 14.5 released with Connection Assist on Android for users in restricted regions, redesigned logs on desktop etc.:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/4/

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

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.:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/4/

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BetaNews · Google has lost its ad tech monopoly trial... and Mozilla is scaredIn a decision that surprised few, a judge has ruled that Google is guilty of “willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power” in advertising technology. Google (or its parent company, Alphabet, at least) is obviously unhappy with the ruling, but it’s not the only one.
#FOSS#OpenSource#OpenSourceNews
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AAKL

So -- the fallout. But first, Google is appealing the verdict.

When all is said and done, Mozilla and Apple are both likely to pay the price, although Apple is a big fish and can probably talk its way out of some the damages. But Mozilla is in danger. There was always that question about the implications of its intimate affair with Google.

Betanews: Google has lost its ad tech monopoly trial... and Mozilla is scared betanews.com/2025/04/18/google @betanews @sofia_w_w #Google #Mozilla #Apple

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BetaNews · Google has lost its ad tech monopoly trial... and Mozilla is scaredIn a decision that surprised few, a judge has ruled that Google is guilty of “willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power” in advertising technology. Google (or its parent company, Alphabet, at least) is obviously unhappy with the ruling, but it’s not the only one.
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Sean Coates

Sadly, I'm afraid it might be too late, but… @soapdog on a #Mozilla we actually want, not what is has become:

“I think Mozilla dropped the ball.
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I want […] a browser that is a user agent and not a browser that is silicon valey serf that sometimes behaves like a brat.

I don't want Mozilla AI, let another foundation take care of that. I want a Mozilla Labs pushing the boundaries of the IndieWeb and one that I can trust not to be part of that cursed shoal."

andregarzia.com/2025/04/the-mo

andregarzia.comThe Mozilla I want focus on people and not AI • AndreGarzia.comAndreGarzia.com website
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So far, no issues with #kubuntu 25.04 on #framework 13" AMD

The upgrade tried to force the broken #Firefox snap on me again though: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sou

LaunchpadBug #2089159 “upgrade from 24.04 LTS to 24.10 reinstalled snap v...” : Bugs : firefox package : UbuntuUnder 24.04 LTS I'd installed FireFox via https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux# and removed the Snap version I ran the standard upgrade steps from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OracularUpgrades/Kubuntu At the end of install, before reboot, "snap list" shows the firefox Snap is now back, and there is a "firefox" package installed. The /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla file is still there. I suspect this is because 3rd party packages are disabled during upgrade, so th...
#linux#ubuntu#framework13
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スパックマン クリス

Am I crazy for considering modifying the #Mozilla #Firefox code and recompiling just to get #emacs -like shortcuts? Even just ctrl-s for search and ctrl-w for cut (or at least turning off ctrl-w = close the window) would be huge time savers and "oops" removers.

Supposedly there are ways to add some #javascript to dirs to make these changes, but honestly, it seems more difficult than tweaking & recompiling.

Seems that extensions can't get deep enough to change some shortcuts.

#FLOSS#gentoo
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F-Droid

We are not lawyers, nor our alter egos play as such on the Internet. Ergo in the face of legal challenges we are only rusticos.

If you feel ad idem and want to lend a hand, or head, to #FDroid pro bono and bona fide, you can help in our ongoing efforts ad infinitum.

Quaeritur right here: f-droid.org/2025/04/16/strengt

f-droid.orgStrengthening FOSS Legal Resilience | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App RepositoryAs part of the FOSS Sustainability grant awarded to F-Droid by the OpenTechnology Fund(OTF)earlier this year, we’ve taken on the task of developing clear,com...
#Mozilla#EFF#SFLC
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