DUMP FIREFOX... or at Least Hit 'em Where it Hurts!

Reaganite Republican ^ | 09 April 2014 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

If disposing of a CEO for donating to an unfashionable political cause didn't repulse you enough to keep from using the (overrated imho) Firefox web browser, perhaps their online POLITICAL censorship will... or maybe you don't mind being told what you can read, either.

Mozilla Firefox users this week were finding articles pertaining to imploding 'progressive' WH causes/initiatives ('gender equality', 'war on women') 
blocked and substituted by leftist propaganda...

American Thinker:

Nanny Firefox posted a political opinion on my screen before allowing me to proceed to read the article. This message didn’t appear when I accessed a second article which met with Firefox’s political commissar’s approval. 

Here’s what Firefox said:

Careful Now! (shouldn’t they have said “Achtung! or “Verboten!” or something similar?).

This website could not be displayed by Firefox because it is 

not consistent with Mozilla’s corporate values. 

May we suggest visiting another site instead?

Click anywhere to continue

Notice that there is the implication in the “This website” sentence that one cannot access this Red State article under Firefox before, indeed, allowing one to go to that Red State piece by following a link further down the page. This is a totalitarian move on the part of Mozilla Firefox but with a smiling facing – and a plausible deniability of censorship, nudging people to not access the site and also discouraging those readers who didn’t fully understand the written message from even attempting to click on the page...

I myself haven't used Firefox in years, and Safari is more than fine with me. But if you really must keep this browser, behold... it's easy to stay with Firefox yet still cost most of the (Google referral) revenue the product earns for Mozilla...

Fire Andrea Mitchell:

To really send the message to Google as well, make some other search provider, such as h your Firefox search provider by building a bookmark and using it. As good as Google is, they are the main source of Mozilla income, and so you want to cease using them while using Firefox until the message has been sent.

For those of you who love Google as I do for the quality of its search results, I suggest that you install an alternate browser just for Google searches, so no possible revenue stream reaches Mr. Eich’s tormentors that way. 

I'm using Midori — which is based on the Webkit engine rather than Mozilla’s Gecko engine. This lets me search Google without sending a dime to Mozilla. In addition, having a separate browser aids you in avoiding Google-itis, in which your gmail account becomes a nexus for knowing your habits...

It's about time patriots cut off doing business with major threats to our freedom like the PC Nazis at Mozilla-- the Techie Left is a great place to start in general, even California hippies are sick of them.

And its not just the left we should boycott:
Chamber of Commerce/Rove donors, you're next...

[steve86]

Palemoon is not only based on Mozilla but Owned by Mozilla.

Utterly false. No one owns open source.

[steve86]

i'm using Pale Moon too, but have noticed many more pop-ups.

I have zero on either except for sites I have whitelisted. You do have popups disabled and Adblock Plus or similar installed, don't you?

[McGruff]

I’ve noticed more popups also even with the same ad blocking extensions.

[Focault's Pendulum]

i'm using Pale Moon too, but have noticed many more pop-ups.

Go to tools, add-ons. Check your extensions and add ons. You will probably have to re inable them. Especially if you use Ad Blocker, Ghostery, and so on.

[Vendome]

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.

[tanknetter]

Not just Mitchell Baker, but also that jackass CEO of OKCupid. The one who was later shown to have donated to “antigay” candidates and causes as well.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Still trying to figure out how boycotting a free product is going to affect anything.

[LonePalm]

There is a simple solution that will allow you to continue using Firefox but cut off their money stream from you.

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)