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"Last month, Mozilla made a quiet change in Firefox that caused some diehard users to revolt..."

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    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.

    • myliltoehurts@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      I like to think the behind the scenes is just a decades long game of dare in Mozilla's leadership that slowly got out of control but they've all gotten too deep in it now to give up and just call it a tie.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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    5 months ago

    Mozilla wants us to love Firefox again? Ok, well, it's actually pretty simple: treat us like customers users, instead of products again. Make the product for us, not for the corpos. Strange how betrayal turns a friend into a foe, isn't it...

    E: changed customers to users, as another user here suggested the difference between them. (thanks, fellow lemming!)

  • sushibowl@feddit.nl
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    5 months ago

    Laura Chambers, who stepped into an interim CEO role at Mozilla in February, says the company is reinvesting in Firefox after letting it languish in recent years,

    It's sort of amusing to me that Mozilla would let the Firefox browser languish. Is that not the raison d'etre of your entire organization? What are you doing with your time and effort if you are allowing your core product to languish? What would people say if Microsoft said "yeah, we've allowed windows to languish in recent years." What an insane notion.

  • brainw0rms
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    1 month ago

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      It was a hidden, opt-out feature.

      But thanks for your denigrating comment. We now know the value of your thoughts.

      You should perhaps watch this: "Taking Control of Your Personal Data" by prof. Jennifer Golbeck, published by The Teaching Company, ISBN:978-1629978390, likely available at your local library as a DVD or streaming.

      I suspect you don't realize the extent of the tracking occurring today.

      • brainw0rms
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        1 month ago

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