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>Unfortunately, some abusive users were beginning to use Send to ship malware and conduct spear phishing attacks. Isn't it absurdly incompetent of them not to foresee this?
I used Firefox Send for deliverables on a commission. It was so easy . I could send updated versions and set a date for the download to expire to make sure both sides were on the current version. That was worth money. They could have charged for it.
Sigh.
I suggest we all write to Firefox and suggest charging $1/month for Send.
“divide, conquer and destroy” - slogan of current Mozilla management
What the heck does this even mean. This flavor of complaint would make more sense if you were criticizing Mozilla having too many services.
Wrong title, Mozilla; title should have been "Firefox Send and Firefox Notes to be discontinued soon", or something like that. Don't hide behind the fact. Tell the fact in the title.
Firefox Send was effectively shut down months ago due to it being used to spread malware, but you could find messages saying that they're working on bringing it back. I interpret this news as "it's not coming back".
No need for interpretation, they state it flat out:
"In the intervening period [since the temporary shutdown], as we weighed the cost of our overall portfolio and strategic focus, we've made the decision not to relaunch the service."
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I presume bandwidth and storage are the main concerns since I doubt compute dominates in this kind of service.
You're right! Luckily files have a maximum lifetime of 1 day, which helps with storage. Almost no computing needed. Expensive en/decrypting operations are done on the client.
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You're right! Luckily files have a maximum lifetime of 1 day, which helps with storage. Almost no computing needed. Expensive en/decrypting operations are done on the client.
Do you know what you'll do when people start sharing illegal content?
Listen to the developers and implement API. Firefox web API implementation is so far behind from Chrome. It is saddening.
Sell and bring values to developers. They are your most likely customers, not the general public.
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You're right! Luckily files have a maximum lifetime of 1 day, which helps with storage. Almost no computing needed. Expensive en/decrypting operations are done on the client.
Do you know what you'll do when people start sharing illegal content?
I've thought about it though, but haven't settled on anything yet. I can't inspect files. I'll add an abuse report notice soon, abuse@ is already live. I'll attempt to manually review cases. That doesn't prevent illegal sharing, but I think that's the best I can do. If things get out of hand, I might take the instance down. I don't want to support hosting illegal stuff.
A newer Send version (yet to deploy) also shows a clear warning, and requires users to tick a confirmation box, when downloading through the webpage. I hope that helps preventing malware installations.
This is inevitable. Mozilla should focus on their browser tech and monetization, instead of creating competing services to other consumer focused startups. Listen to the developers and implement API. Firefox web API implementation is so far behind from Chrome. It is saddening. Sell and bring values to developers. They are your most likely customers, not the general public.