As the title states, either these browsers are nothing but full of trackers and ads or they are so locked down that they are basically not functional. Why can’t I find a browser that is just a freaking browser but with no BS???

    • Ripley_Tripley@lemmus.orgOPEnglish
      5·
      21 hours ago

      After hearing on the recent controversy from Mullvad, I’m not gonna go that route in using them. Same with anything Proton, don’t want the drama.

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        13·
        21 hours ago

        There isn’t really any controversy with the company or the products. one of the co-founders fail people’s political purity testing, but the products are solid.

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        25·
        1 day ago

        That’s a fun hot take, regardless the open source browser they sponser is amazing and it’s exactly what I want out of the box.

        • Ilandar@lemmy.todayEnglish
          61·
          1 day ago

          It’s not a hot take. It’s a fact that has been acknowledged via public statements from the individual in question and the company.

          • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
            24·
            24 hours ago

            it’s an extremely hot take to call them a nazi because you disagree on one person’s political viewpoints on immigration, and try to purity test a great open source project because of it.

            • Ilandar@lemmy.todayEnglish
              5·
              21 hours ago

              because you disagree on one person’s political viewpoints on immigration

              That’s a very mild way of saying that the political party he donates to supports ethnic cleansing. These are direct quotes from its leader:

              In a debate hosted by Studio3 with Liberal member of parliament Martin Melin, Allard asked: “why won’t the Liberals push for deporting 100 000 social welfare-Somalis?” and in the same debate said that “Sweden belongs to the Swedes. We have to make sure that we take care of our own damn people and we must deport these damn parasites who sit and live at our expense.”

              In a podcast segment about immigration and deportations Allard stated his opinion and said that "They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish.

              • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
                13·
                21 hours ago

                now you have moved the goalposts from mullvad, to one of its founders using personal money, now to a political party that isn’t involved in mullvad.

                does any of this impact the open source project? no.

                • Ilandar@lemmy.todayEnglish
                  3·
                  21 hours ago

                  Are you lost? Go back and reach the comment chain, I haven’t “mOvEd tHe gOaLpOsTs” at all. The original reply to your first comment (from another person) was:

                  Until you remember their co-founder funds fascism

                  We were always talking about the co-founder in this comment chain, all of my replies to you have been about him.

                  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
                    13·
                    21 hours ago

                    and they cited a article calling the cofounder a nazi.

                    I don’t care about the cofounders personal politics. The product is open source, its solid, and does a excellent job.

      • Dookieman12@piefed.socialEnglish
        511·
        1 day ago

        Do you fully boycott Coca-Cola, Amazon, Meta, Johnson & Johnson, Dupont, Monsanto, Sysco, Chic-Fil-A, and Nestle too? They all donate considerably more money to authoritarian regimes.