> Mozilla watcher Sören Hentzschel points out [1] that the release notes do not indicate that this service collects data. This means that end users were not aware that the service was forwarding data to Mozilla, which is remarkable for a browser provider that claims to value (data) privacy.<p>I don't think the second sentence can/should be inferred from the first. Just the fact that the removal isn't called out in the release notes, doesn't mean that users weren't informed about it when it <i>was</i> present.<p>There's probably something to be said about whether it was mentioned clearly enough (and on whether it should have been present in the first place), but the release notes of a future version is not where I'd expect to find information about data collection.<p>(I work for Mozilla, but not on Firefox and wasn't involved with this.)<p>[1] <a href="https://www.soeren-hentzschel.at/firefox-android/mozilla-entfernt-adjust-android-und-apple-ios/" rel="nofollow">https://www.soeren-hentzschel.at/firefox-android/mozilla-ent...</a>
Lots of movement around Firefox lately.<p>The possibility of the google money going away as a result of the antitrust ruling must be really shaking them to the core over at Mozilla.
So Firefox had spyware all this time in their iOS and Android apps? Not a surprise here despite them being 80% dependent on Google's money, they could not help introduce spyware in their browser and preach 'privacy-first'.<p>They were never a 'privacy-first browser' after taking Google's money and refusing to remove their dependence from them.
(2024) Question: Is it "true" that company's may use a link-shortener-service and within a link they send you, hiding their ruling that you have automatically accepted their tracking-"cookie-policy" (for example in agreeing their TOS before)?<p>Sry, non native english speaker... regards
Personally, I'll judge how worried they are about money by how much the CEO's pay changes. Constantly acting like they're about to be on the rocks when their CEO is taking home almost $7m in compensation per year is laughable, especially considering they made less than $1m for much of Mozilla's lifetime, and their raise to $2m made headlines not that many years ago.
Speaking of mobile Firefox, they're pursuing this abomination of a UI update for Android too: <a href="https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/updates-to-android-navigation/td-p/62811" rel="nofollow">https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/updates-to-androi...</a>
Every large non-profit in the tech/software space eventually becomes a non-profit that happens to do software, rather than a software organization incorporated as a non-profit. Wikimedia, Mozilla, Canonical, etc.
It’s really disappointing that they even had this, and is a perfect example of Mozilla selling out users to Google, as if it weren’t obvious before.<p>Really no reason to use Firefox over Chromium or Safari as far as I can see.<p>I’ve had good luck with Orion on mobile.