Unfortunately, the "we promise not to sell your personal data" disappeared from the privacy policy during the acquisition, so we know why they remain donationware post-acquisition.
Used to be a plain Firefox extension back in the days.
It was really simple, something like:
- You clicked a button in the toolbar or right clicked and chose menu option
- a dialog showed up, you chose how often it should check the page and how big differences it should tolerate and clicked OK.
- once every hour or 4 times a day or twice a day depending on your choice Firefox would download the page locally, compare it and tell me if there were changes.
Yes, we oldtimers mostly complain about TST, but there were an entire ecosystem of brilliant extensions - so brilliant I figure it would habe been hard for me to believe today if I hadn't experienced it back then.
That's what you can have when you have brilliant people making brilliant software to empower you :-/
Edit: seriously, I would pay $20 a month for someone who would fix the new Firefox. If someone made a realistic Kickstarter I'd support it right away and then monthly if necessary.
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