Mozilla announced a change to Firefox this week and people overreacted. So I made a video about exactly why this change means nothing and why these emotions are misplaced. Sit back and relax my nea...
  • @dance_ninja
    7•9 hours ago

    The freakout definitely feels overblown. Having to account for California law seems like a perfectly legitimate reason. I’m actually surprised they originally had a separate link to clarify their privacy policy as the video pointed out.

    Seem like the whole thing revolves around Mozilla’s poor messaging to correct for poor messaging (…to correct for poor messaging) and the internet’s knee-jerk, algorithmic-fueled rage to anything with nuance. Then again, FOSS with good PR/messaging sounds like a unicorn situation.

    • @poryEnglish
      1•57 minutes ago

      The latest change isn’t anything yet, but it definitely drew enough attention to Mozilla’s advertising and AI divisions to cause long term FF advocates like me to start looking into how to pull as much Mozilla as possible out of Firefox. I swapped to Waterfox and it was a totally painless transition - just copy the profile folder and done.

      If you’re picking between Browser A which has ads on the new tab page, telemetry, Pocket in the UI and right click menu, and promotes a paid VPN subscription (but you can turn all of those off if you know where to dig in the settings) or Browser B which is the same browser but without any of those things, why stick with A?

      Mozilla can keep being the most ethical and user-first corporation in the browsing space (by far), but firefox’s users don’t have to have a corporation in charge of their browser at all. The best CEO is one that doesn’t exist. The best profit model is one that doesn’t exist.