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I can't believe the apologists commenting on this. Firefox put a lot of effort into tracking download to install behavior. Maybe this is the only violation you know about. There's no reason to continue to believe in Mozilla's good faith. They've been captured, and are 90% dependent on Google revenue. Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28954390 Firefox is dead. It's time to move past denial. It does…
You say all this as if Chrome is somehow not even worse
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You know I let a lot of important things in Firefox slide (like the poor Webspeech API support, bad text-to-speech, some missing extensions and a lot of other things) but I still make it a habit to use it over Chrome (and recommend it to everybody) as somewhere in my mind it feels like a small revolt against the giant evil Google corp. But stuff like this and other shenanigans in the past (like Mr.robot, misuse of fu…
I changed my default browser few days ago back to Safari. In Firefox, I would usually click the first two items on the home page which would be photopea or reddit. That day, they put 2 sponsored items for Amazon and Trivago instead at the first 2 spots and I accidentally clicked the amazon one without realizing because that first item was supposed to be Photopea. That was enough to piss me off: https://i.imgur.com/s7…
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The average person fears the domestic intelligence service and is not as concerned with local police.
The thousands of people a year murdered by local police (many of whom are unarmed and innocent) would probably disagree.
Though I don't see it in recent years.
I'm posting anonymously for obvious reasons. I've been working at Mozilla since its inception. And eventually left the company 2 years ago. And I'm so mad. Mozilla is not the Mozilla that was created almost 20 years ago. It's not the same people there. After the Firefox 4 nightmare, they started hiring product managers from big corp. We started seeing some ex-twitter, ex-microsoft, ex-amazon joining the company. Peop…
I would love to hear more about this
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What're the alternatives to Firefox? The only ones that come to mind are Opera and Brave, and Brave had some controversy too.
LibreWolf is one alternative. https://librewolf.net/ https://privacytests.org/
Suppose you want to do something anonymously. 1. Download installer from Mozilla from your home network - Mozilla now has your home IP and installer ID. 2. Transfer it via USB key to a secure, anonymous computer - one not linked to you, on a network not associated with you, such as public WiFi. 3. Install Firefox using that installer on said computer. It transmits the installer ID to Mozilla, which matches the one gi…
The Apple’s icloud private relay should prevent Mozilla knowing the IP.
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Debian has a deliberate policy of extensively modifying upstream code, including security-critical code, without any dedicated security review. This (predictably) resulted in quite possibly the worst general-purpose software security bug of all time, where SSH and TLS keys generated on Debian machines were effectively blank and supposedly encrypted communications were readable by anyone. Debian has not changed its pr…
How many times did this happen since Debian's inception? How much time did it take to fix it when it happened? Because "few" and "not much" would be fantastic. Nothing is perfect.
Regarding time to fix it, the bug was fixed about 2 weeks after it was reported, but it had been present for about 20 months (affecting all DSA keys generated on Debian systems during that time) - since security audits and researchers only look at the original upstream source, the bug was only spotted when a user noticed that two of the servers they were logging into had the same SSH key.
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I can't believe the apologists commenting on this. Firefox put a lot of effort into tracking download to install behavior. Maybe this is the only violation you know about. There's no reason to continue to believe in Mozilla's good faith. They've been captured, and are 90% dependent on Google revenue. Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28954390 Firefox is dead. It's time to move past denial. It does…
What're the alternatives to Firefox? The only ones that come to mind are Opera and Brave, and Brave had some controversy too.