Posted on 10/28/2026 9:06:22 AM PDT by Twotone
Sick of web browsers tracking your every move and forcing intrusive, unnecessary AI features on you?
Apparently, you’re not alone. Some of your favorite internet personalities — and real-life memes from the late 2000s and early 2010s — are joining forces to promote Firefox, a browser that's pushing back against online tracking and unwanted AI features.
Mozilla, the non-profit organization behind the Firefox web browser, has just launched a new ad campaign to draw internet users away from AI-filled Google Chrome and back to Firefox's heyday in the late 2000s and early 2010s, when Firefox commanded up to 32 percent of the global browser market share.
To do that, Mozilla has brought together some of the biggest internet personalities of that era for a new ad campaign called "Come Back to Firefox."
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I’m listening.
My VPN took care of much of the tracking.
I use Microsoft’s browser, which seems completely defeated by the VPN.
I use Brave and Duck Duck Go for search.
Things are much cleaner since I started that in August.
I left Firefox years ago although I think I still have access to it. Mainly Brave for browsing now. Maybe look again? Not sure why we worry about privacy at this point. Pretty sure “they” have it all by now. 🤔😂👍🇺🇸
I’m using Firefox now. I tried Brave but ended up with issues I couldn’t resolve.
Google search Ai helps me a lot with gardening and home repairs.
Firefox when properly configured (not default) is the most secure/ privacy enabled browser there is. Even more than Mullvad. Ask Google how to configure it.
If you're on Windows 11, you might want to look up Windows GDID.
Searches, depending on what I want, Duckduck or Google.
Google AI, depending on what I want.
By that, Duck for if I want a one time search without being pestered by "suggestions" later after searching.
Google for if I want more ideas on something, wanting to be pestered.
I stopped using it when they fired their main guru, because he gave some money for proposition 108? or whatever.
Even Rush called for boycott then.
I think they lost most of the market share then!
Is is OK to use it again?
I’m posting this using Firefox on my PC. Any don’t plan to switching to anything else anytime is the future.
I dumped Firefox ten years ago when they dumped their Founder at Mozilla, Brendon Eich, because he made a donation to a conservative cause.
Firefox ran me off with its constant updating. Seemed like every day when I went to use it, I had to wait for updates.
If they walk back the constant updating and go back to scheduled releases, I’d be happy to return to it.
Oh, and they will need need to keep it Win7 friendly, something that SeaMonkey apparently don longer does.
I liked Edge a lot. Since they’ve changed, a lot of my add ONS no longer work. So I no longer use it.
I found with Firefox if I go to Tiktok, the videos are jerky.
The Yandex searches yield a lot more results that are censored or buried by Google and similar services.
Libh8er is onto it: Firefox is superior when configured against ads and tracking - all controls found in ‘Settings’ which they have in a drop-down three-bar symbol far right of the screen.
Combine that with the uBlock Origins add-on you’re bulletproof. That works so well I see blank spaces in stories and have to remember that most people are seeing advertisements in those spots. uBlock also has a nifty counter on it’s icon showing how many ads it’s blocked per session.
If they walk back the constant updating and go back to scheduled releases, I’d be happy to return to it.
Oh, and they will need need to keep it Win7 friendly, something that SeaMonkey apparently don longer does.
I've been on Windows 7 on the same desktop computer since 2011 and have been using Firefox for the last 12 years. Still very comparable with Windows 7 and a great ad blocker, though they do have updates about every week or so, it just takes seconds to update which only happens the next time you open the browser, and you can defer it to another time if you desire.
“comparable”=compatable
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