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Mozilla drops new Privacy Note and Terms of Service; People are saying it is Bad News (blog.mozilla.org)
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Not a good look for Firefox. Third partners and device fingerprinting clearly mentioned in the documents.

The move is the latest development in a series of shifts Mozilla has undergone over the past year.

The gecko engine and Firefox forks, such as Tor, Mullvad, Librewolf, and Arkenfox, are stables of private, open source web browsing.

In fact, Mozilla's is one of the few browser engines out there, in a protocol-heavy industry that many say only corporate or well-funded non-profits can reliably develop.

What is more, daily driving the more hardened-for-privacy Firefox derivatives can be frowned upon by many sites, including your bank and workplace.

Mozilla's enshittification leaves the open source community without a good alternative to Firefox, after years of promoting it as a privacy-friendly alternative to spyware-cum-browser Chrome.

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[–] Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works -5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Centrism is apathy and sucks

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Reductionism is lazy and sucks. You didn't even read the comment you responded to, you're just mad that not everyone is upset enough for you.

[–] Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

No, not particularly. I’m not that upset myself, I recently switched to Librewolf. I just get annoyed at what I perceive as statements that ride the fence. Privacy is not a place to give ground on.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago

Did it ever occur to you that people can have a mix of views that don't fully conform to one ideology or another? It's a spectrum, not riding the fence. Like politics, not everything is a team sport.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I suppose Mozilla should lock the doors and institute slave labor rather than find some way of paying their employees that might be construed by you to be giving up privacy

[–] Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Now that’s a mental leap to get there.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh, I thought we have to take extreme positions

[–] Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well if that’s the case just dismantle the whole thing and return to the woods

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm glad you see my point

[–] Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

https://lemmy.zip/post/32996169

Yeah bro we should totally be chill with this bro it’s just a TOS bro they have to pay their employees bro

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Say bro a few more times -- it really makes me look unintelligent that you both do that and can't understand a view that isn't black/white

[–] Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

bro this is embarrassing bro. please bro.

woosh

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago

I got the joke you were trying to make, poorly. It just wasn't funny.

[–] tomatolung@lemmy.world -3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's an idiotic statement. Realism or understanding what realpolitik is in a political situation is far more likely to allow you find and develop change in an organization, as well keep you from wasting your time on useless leverage points. In this case knowing both frames of reference is valuable so that action can be taken, as opposed to just writing five words.

[–] Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago

Privacy and defending it is a worthy thing to have an ideological stance on.