Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes • Hacker News Board

Re: Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes

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Post by propogandist » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 8:35 PM UTC

they were using s3 for file storage. This was likely just burning incredible amount of cash and had absolutely no monetization angle in play.

Re: Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes

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Post by kyleee » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 8:36 PM UTC

haxorito wrote: post #29

“divide, conquer and destroy” - slogan of current Mozilla management

All while collecting nice paychecks thanks to the google money

Re: Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes

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Post by jherdman » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 8:36 PM UTC

masukomi wrote: post #33

causality0 wrote: post #24

Calling a service that launched only 17 months ago "legacy functionality" is troubling. Why should I engage with any new Mozilla product or service if they're going to cut it off at the knees after a year?

this question is why i haven't engaged with any new Mozilla product in years. They just KEEP making cool things that you want to integrate into your workflows and then killing them.

Are you using Chrome? If so https://killedbygoogle.com/. Google is guilty of the same.

Re: Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes

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Post by evolve2k » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 8:37 PM UTC

varbhat wrote: post #22

Looks like Mozilla is becoming VPN company shifting it's previous focus which was on browserware. Mozilla VPN seems to be just rebranded resell of Mullavad VPN with Mozilla Goodies. Mozilla Monitor seems to use https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (also as seen in Firefox desktop) Mozilla Firefox Private Network looks like another Cloudflare Warp's rebrand (with litte good additions maybe?) seeing that it uses Cloudflare . Mo…

They are going through the necessary but deeply painful process of diversifying their income away from Google payments, which is much easier said than done.

Mozillas initially incredible partnership with Google, from which they earn the vast majority of their income, essentially turned toxic once Google started experimenting with Chrome. On that day Google’s favourite browser to support shifted from Firefox to Chrome.

Being financially reliant on your main competitor is a deeply troubling and dysfunctional position to be in.

Regardless of how good it started, its time to move on.

Re: Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes

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Post by ahnick » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 8:38 PM UTC

Yea, for easy github forking! :) Firefox Send was such a great and simple tool for sharing those >10MB (anything that won't fit in an email) files with literally anyone.

Now that we'll be maintaining our own fork (https://github.com/plyint/send), if anyone has any thoughts on features or fixes you'd like added I'd love to hear from you. Just send us a message from our website (https://plyint.com), open a github issue or contact me through my HN profile. I can't promise will implement it, but we'll definitely give it a serious look.

Re: Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes

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Post by haunter » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 8:39 PM UTC

I've started using https://transfer.sh/ as a replacement

Re: Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes

#47

Post by forgotpwd16 » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 8:40 PM UTC

Services relevant to data sharing are going to be abused. This should have been expected. On the other hand Notes is being deprecated because isn't used much? It can be handy as an extension.

Re: Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes

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Post by WA » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 8:41 PM UTC

haunter wrote: post #46

I've started using https://transfer.sh/ as a replacement

> As of October 30th 2020, Storj Labs will discontinue support for the transfer.sh service.

Popup on the website

Re: Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes

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Post by zymhan » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 8:41 PM UTC

Macha wrote: post #40

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #17

I'm crushed to see Firefox Send go away. It was an amazing tool. In the "This is why we can't have nice things category" it's sad to see yet another encrypted file-sharing service that is inevitably shut down when someone starts abusing it to host malware or child porn.

It's the one service of the new wave of Mozilla products I actually liked. Well, maybe lockwise might be ok, but I already have a password manager.

I use Lockwise since I'd been using Firefox Password manager for years. I keep my important passwords (Financial, etc) in Keepass, but for the myriad websites I use that require logins, Lockwise is a great solution. I'm also very impressed by it's iOS integration.

Re: Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes

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Post by haunter » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 8:42 PM UTC

WA wrote: post #48

haunter wrote: post #46

I've started using https://transfer.sh/ as a replacement

> As of October 30th 2020, Storj Labs will discontinue support for the transfer.sh service. Popup on the website

https://github.com/dutchcoders/transfer.sh/ fork and works just as fine