“Last month, Mozilla made a quiet change in Firefox that caused some diehard users to revolt…”
I am doubly pissed off:
- Mozilla opts me into an analytics scheme without requiring my permission. That’s bad.
- Mozilla partners with fucking FACEBOOK to spring this shit on me? Now THAT takes the cake!
But… I would be pissed off if I used straight Firefox, and I don’t: I use LibreWolf, and I have no doubt they’ll strip this latest round of Mozilla nonsense from the LibreWolf browser.
I don’t know… I have a love/hate relationship with Mozilla: on the one hand, they’re pretty much the only thing that stands between the final overrun of the web by the Google monoculture and still having some kind of a choice what you use to hit the internet, and they make one of the only email clients worth its salt in Linux. On the other hand, every time they decide to do something, it’s always a screw-up, and it’s been like that for decades. Surely in their position, they should know what not to do to piss off everybody all the time, and yet… What a weird bunch.
LibreWolf is great as long as they’re able to pull out malicious advertising.
I hope some of the completely independent projects start taking off. Chrome is cancer. Manifest V3 is metastasized cancer. Mozilla is basically taking up smoking.
I miss the days when we had functioning software without telemetry whenever we wiggle a mouse and ads in every corner.
“They made this technology for advertisers, specifically,” says Jonah Aragon, founder of the Privacy Guides website. “There’s no direct benefit to the user in creating this. It’s software that only serves a party other than the user.”
Ah, the Dunning-Kruger effect.
could you please explain further what you mean and what you’re referring to?
It refers to people that no a little about something and so assume they know a lot. To suggest that Mozilla PPA has no benefit to the average user is disingenuous at best or outright malicious malpractice with the intent of defamation.
To suggest that Mozilla PPA has no benefit to the average user is disingenuous at best or outright malicious malpractice with the intent of defamation
Thanks. Could you give some examples how the average user benefits from this collaboration between mozilla and meta, as implemented or due for implementation in firefox?
The first part actually reads slightly optimistic.
Modern tabs management, web apps making a comeback, more money for the Browser instead of useless side projects, etc.
We still need to turn of tons of telemetry and user tracking, but its nice to see some movement.
Let’s hope that this isn’t just new CEO bla bla.
The could learn from Librewolf
Did Fennec do all this privacy nonsense too?
Yes, but there are forks that are more private and have saner defaults like Mull, however some privacy guides warn against using anything firefox-based on android at all due to lack of process isolation and I think a couple other things.
Friendly reminder to define your own threat model and do what makes the most sense for you personally, as many privacy opinions in communities and guides like this might be seen as too extreme to some people… I’m just relaying information I have seen that probably most people haven’t.
