Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy

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[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, that'll regain them confidence from me. Totally.

[–]In-the-clouds 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Since I have been setting up a firewall to block unwanted internet traffic, I recently noticed that every time I open Mozilla's Firefox, the browser immediately connects to googleusercontent.com. And that is at a blank page before selecting any website to visit. Obviously Google has a strong influence over Mozilla.

[–]Drewski[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

archive.today mirror | archive.org mirror

[–]package 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Aka reselling VPN access

[–]salvia_d 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Laura Chambers, a Mozilla board member and entrepreneur with experience at Airbnb, PayPal, and eBay...

lol

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

As long as my every webpage is sent to Google, Mozilla, or other partners to ensure they are not malicious websites, and my every search term is sent, along with results, to ensure malicious addons aren't hijacking my results, my every move using the app is collected as telemetry points to send to Mozilla, they push me to use their DNS, and I have no way of disabling the majority of this stuff without significant low-level manipulation.

The centralized security scam: You must trust us with your every bit of information or you will not be safe....but how does that protect my data from you?

[–]Drewski[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Check out the Librewolf fork, it's a lot more private by default.