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Mozilla – Devil Incarnate; or How Mozilla Pretends to Care About Privacy (digdeeper.neocities.org)
3 points by alg0rith on Feb 25, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



The post is horribly formatted. It's also basically not much more than a lengthy rant against a lot of changes in UI/UX/security at Firefox that happened over the course of many years. Stuff that was confusing was removed which is being painted as a way of taking away freedom from the user.

While I agree that Mozilla is behaving in a rather deceptive manner e.g. by portraying themselves as the lone ranger in the fight against the mighty Google, while paying off most of their expenses by Google's payments for being Firefox' default search engine in a big part of the world, their PR department is going a great job and a lot of people fall for it.

This post however will enlighten you in the same sense a 9/11 conspiracy theory will bring you any closer to the truth of what happen in 2001.


My latest Mozilla moment was visiting their web page to read how to do something and immediately getting a pop-in window asking my opinion of their web site.

Well, if you distract me with a pop-in window I am not going to say anything good about your site.

Mozilla likes to blather about "diversity" but it seems the one kind of diversity that matters to them is having a fancy office in a city where you can watch "privileged" white males live on the street, puke, die from overdoses, etc.

I have to qualify that, however, in that now that Edge is gone, Firefox is the only thing that stands in the way of a Google monopoly.




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