***ping***
Stopped using the Google KGB long ago. Currently using Opera, but some items just don’t work on that browser yet. Need to check out other browsers mentioned.
Dumped Firefox last week and tweeted Mozilla that I was just as intolerant as they.
I’m going to play with Palemoon, which is based on Mozilla, but can be customized to specific requirements.
This isn’t because I think I can alter their liberal thinking, after all it *is* (still, sorta-kinda) a free country and I don’t expect everyone will agree with me, but because Firefox has been becoming increasingly unstable with memory leaks and other issues going unaddressed.
Thankfully, we have the freedom of choice.
Dump on all my home machine and also in office.
Shove it, Mozilla. Evidently you like the folks that do.
Update: Red State has admitted this is a hoax:
Firefox users: We sent you a little message today.
By: The Directors (Diary) | April 8th, 2014 at 06:41 PM | 74
Today, users of the Firefox web browser were given a message when accessing most of our Front Page content at RedState. They were told that this site could not be displayed, because of a conflict with the values of the Mozilla corporation, and they were suggested to visit another site.
We put that message up, because we wanted to remind people that the totalitarian impulse of the Mozilla corporation is real, and if you haven’t been Made to Care yet, you will be soon.
Send a message that you won’t take it lying down. Get another browser.
I deeply regret passing along a hoax, and am angry at Red State for publishing something that is untrue. Red State has lost my respect and any future presumption of credibility. They may also be hearing from Firefox's attorneys. This is an excellent way to scarifice a good cause in the name of sensationalism. Much though I hate it, I must hereby apologize to Firefox, and I blame Red State.
-Thomas Lifson, editor
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/04/firefox_expands_into_censorship.html
Redstate says THEY put it up:
We put that message up, because we wanted to remind people that the totalitarian impulse of the Mozilla corporation is real, and if you haven’t been Made to Care yet, you will be soon.
Pale Moon or Waterfox. Both are functionally indentical to Firefox, but not associated with Mozilla.
“I suggest that you install an alternate browser just for Google searches”.
Better yet, use Startpage.com or duckduckgo.com as a search engine, as they search Google for you.
Uninstalled Firefox yesterday. I don’t know how to set it up but there should be a “Dump Firefox” site where people can just click if they’ve participated.
There's your real problem. As long as you use Google, you are supporting their decision to force out Eich.
I heartily recommend ixquick. They do no tracking.
I just changed my main home computer to Pale Moon and uninstalled Firefox (which I loved!) — it took literally 5 minutes and transferred over all of my bookmarks, my history, passwords and even my “persona” (the special graphic I had for the top and bottom bars of my browser. New default search is DuckDuckGo, that’s the only difference I can see so far. Will change over my tablet later if this works out well after a day or two of testing.
Even if you can’t personally dump firefox (because it’s needed for some addon or whatever) why not tell others it’s worth a try? Many people don’t know of the other options, such as Pale Moon. It uses firefox extensions but it does not support mozilla.org with ad revenue.
I think that message was given because of the integration with AOL.
I have never received that message and I went to a bunch of “Right Thinking” websites to test it.
Still, with Google being the Patron of Mozilla and accounting for some 80%+ of Mozilla’s nearly $400 million in revenue, we are going to continue to be told the Internet, long considered the Wild West, is being fenced off by Google.
Funny. For a group of people who originally fought against corporatism and conformatity, we sure are being told how to think, what we can read and who we can associate with.
Think of Facebook and how they integrate with Google as well.
Put up something about guns “You’re Fired!”.
Put up something that might hurt the feeeeeeeeelings of 0.0000001% of the homosexual community and “You’re Fired!”
Use alternative browsers and search engines.
Besides, Google only touches 20-25% of the Internet.
There are plenty of other options out there.
Still trying to figure out how boycotting a free product is going to affect anything.
Install Ghostery. It will block ads, trackers, widgets, etc. It is completely customizable by website if you want. That way you can have the ads or widgets you want, where you want (say Amazon or whatever) but not anywhere else.
The price is right, FREE.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)