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Mozilla – Devil Incarnate; or How Mozilla Pretends to Care About Privacy

3 pointsby alg0rithabout 6 years ago

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jasonvorheabout 6 years ago
The post is horribly formatted. It&#x27;s also basically not much more than a lengthy rant against a lot of changes in UI&#x2F;UX&#x2F;security at Firefox that happened over the course of many years. Stuff that was confusing was removed which is being painted as a way of taking away freedom from the user.<p>While I agree that Mozilla is behaving in a rather deceptive manner e.g. by portraying themselves as the lone ranger in the fight against the mighty Google, while paying off most of their expenses by Google&#x27;s payments for being Firefox&#x27; default search engine in a big part of the world, their PR department is going a great job and a lot of people fall for it.<p>This post however will enlighten you in the same sense a 9&#x2F;11 conspiracy theory will bring you any closer to the truth of what happen in 2001.
PaulHouleabout 6 years ago
My latest Mozilla moment was visiting their web page to read how to do something and immediately getting a pop-in window asking my opinion of their web site.<p>Well, if you distract me with a pop-in window I am not going to say anything good about your site.<p>Mozilla likes to blather about &quot;diversity&quot; but it seems the one kind of diversity that matters to them is having a fancy office in a city where you can watch &quot;privileged&quot; white males live on the street, puke, die from overdoses, etc.<p>I have to qualify that, however, in that now that Edge is gone, Firefox is the only thing that stands in the way of a Google monopoly.