It’s been a long time coming, but the trust in Firefox and its mother organization, Mozilla, seems to be mostly gone, after a recent commit on the source code removed the “we don’t sell your data” promise, along with a change of Privacy notice and Terms of Use.

  • @[email protected]
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    181 day ago

    I’m gonna keep asking if people are going to keep posting:

    Would you pay a subscription to use Firefox, and if no, what would you propose as a means of sustaining Firefox’s professional development budget if they lose Google’s Monopoly money?

    • @[email protected]
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      1 day ago

      If only my taxes were put toward things we want and need instead of murdering brown people in other countries.

      I see a browser as no different than other municipal services.

      • HubertManne
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        101 day ago

        I would like a public email where the same protections physical mail gets are applied with end to end encryption. There are a lot of internet things that should be municipal services.

        • @[email protected]
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          424 hours ago

          Public mail has protections from unlawful access, but is subject to the same search and seizure rules as everything else if presented with a lawful warrant.

          The odds of a public email with true E2EE seems damn near impossible to me.

          • HubertManne
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            222 hours ago

            politically impossible not technically. so its pretty much like every freedom and right ever in possibility.

      • @[email protected]
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        224 hours ago

        Public tech funds are an amazing use of tax dollars, I would love it if we had more investment in these systems!

    • @TBi
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      A few years ago I would be arguing that everything should just be free.

      But now I understand that everybody needs to eat so I’d be happy to pay something for a good browser. But most people are like my former self.

    • femtech
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      118 hours ago

      I would, I was about to pay for proton before the ceo posted about liking Trump’s team. I realized if I wanted privacy I needed to self host or pay for it. I’m self hosting a lot but email is just better running thru someone else I trust.

    • TeaOP
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      41 day ago

      If they did not prove themselves to be a better browser in terms of privacy, then what is the purpose of their existence?

      • @[email protected]
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        324 hours ago

        So would you be willing to pay for a subscription to prevent them from going to an ad-supported business model?

        • TeaOP
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          223 hours ago

          If they kept my privacy 100%, sure I could pay up to 3 dollars a month.