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Re: Unfck the Internet

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Post by miloignis »

pixxel wrote: post #58

I’m struggling to stay loyal to Firefox. Mozilla feels like a bloated pig snuffling on Google’s handouts so that its many employees can enjoy a SV lifestyle. We just need devs and a designer or two to focus on Firefox.

This feels very uncharitable, given that they laid off 30% of their workforce and the remainder are pretty much all paid under SV market prices and work there because they believe in the mission. (At least, that was what I saw when I interned there in 2014 and everything I've heard since points to that still being the case)

Re: Unfck the Internet

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Post by MikusR »

Firefox installs a scheduled task that daily reports your default browser to Mozilla and you can't disable it because it comes back after an update. Also while Mozilla provides and constantly advertises (by showing a full page ad for it) an addon that blocks Facebook tracking it doesn't make or advertise an addon to block Google tracking (coincidentally Google pays Mozilla hundreds of millions every year)

Re: Unfck the Internet

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Post by brokenc0de »

henil2911 wrote: post #21

It makes me sad to see people targeting Mozilla for everything. Like yeah its default browser is Google because that's the way they can pay developers to work on it. For now they are only viable alternative in browser space. Yeah it collects data(only after asking for appropriate permission) which too is anonymous(i might be wrong here). But they are not collecting it to make profit out of it like google. Its only to…

The problem is, so called "anonymized" data is able to identify you (sometimes with very few data points required. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/24/researchers-spotlight-the-...). Mozilla advertises Firefox as the browser that doesn't track you, but that's just wrong (since FF has quite a bit of telemetry). And it's on by default, and since people who are new to the privacy mindset may not know about how this telemetry is on, it's sad how Firefox is still recommended.

Re: Unfck the Internet

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Post by commandlinefan »

cnorthwood wrote: post #37
BitwiseFool wrote: post #9

Is it too much to ask for a tech company to just focus on their product and not delve into social advocacy? Edit: The Unfck the Internet project proclaims to be all about user privacy, but it promotes an extension to report political ads and an extension to report recommended YouTube videos (with the goal of not exposing people certain content). That is why I see this as social advocacy because it's clearly got polit…

Yes, unless the technology has no societal implications.

It really doesn't, though - any more than the printing press itself did or the television did. What was produced by them may have had societal implications, but the manufacturers of printing presses and televisions just went about their business of producing high quality printing presses and televisions as best they could.

Re: Unfck the Internet

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Post by [deleted] »

walrus01 wrote: post #44

Is it too much to ask to use the full and uncensored word 'fuck'. I personally have no problem with casual profanity when its use is warranted, and am more "offended" by people who think they need to self censor themselves.

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Re: Unfck the Internet

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Post by dingaling »

walrus01 wrote: post #44

Is it too much to ask to use the full and uncensored word 'fuck'. I personally have no problem with casual profanity when its use is warranted, and am more "offended" by people who think they need to self censor themselves.

And pedantically the verb would be 'defuck'. Unfucked is an adjective.

Re: Unfck the Internet

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Post by nix23 »

henil2911 wrote: post #21

It makes me sad to see people targeting Mozilla for everything. Like yeah its default browser is Google because that's the way they can pay developers to work on it. For now they are only viable alternative in browser space. Yeah it collects data(only after asking for appropriate permission) which too is anonymous(i might be wrong here). But they are not collecting it to make profit out of it like google. Its only to…

>It makes me sad to see people targeting Mozilla for everything

Not for everything but the disgusting management, and the trow out of real Devs. Mozilla management, shut up and make a good browser and leave the rest to the EFF.

BTW: Don't link youtube videos if you want to unfuck (yes if you mean it write it..you know WITH the U). And please make the Firefox Logo in Rainbow-color, not because you stand behind it, but because it gives you that cozy feeling that your are the good ones.

Re: Unfck the Internet

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Post by antisthenes »

Firefox/Mozilla.

Please stick to making a better browser, like you did back when the add-on ecosystem didn't suck and was vibrant and alive.

All these semi-political initiatives just look childish virtue signalling, bankrolled by Google search money and don't do your history any justice.

Re: Unfck the Internet

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Post by joveian »

dleslie wrote: post #30

What's the goal of this campaign? To raise awareness about Firefox's products and increase users? If so, who is the target demographic? The art and style look like they belong on Nickelodian. It's giving me a "Hello, fellow kids" vibe.

It reminds me of GOG's fckdrm.com site, that it looks like has been down for about a month but used to look like this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200817145700/https://fckdrm.co...

I guess it wouldn't be down if it was wildly successful. Also, to their credit GOG was promoting DRM-free in general and it wasn't just an ad for GOG but linked to other DRM-free stores, including direct competitors. I see there are a few other links on Mozilla's page if you follow a link but mostly it looks like an ad for Firefox.

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