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this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2025
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So, uhh, you want to tell us who is saying it's bad news?
gestures vaguely in a direction
Ehh, people, you know?
I have the feeling people are overreacting to anything Mozilla does these days, just to have an excuse to talk people into using (politically?) worse browsers.
Yeah, ususally at this point someone goes "ugh, I'm never using Firefox again because Mozilla don't respect people any more... iT's TiMe To iNsTaLl BRaVe!"
Strangely enough, that's what I thought for a long time but not this time. Removing the lines I saw makes absolutely no sense unless you're selling users data, which I strongly oppose to.
I've started to use librewolf, unsure if this is a good idea.
Your mastodon feed might be different that mine, lmao
https://mastodon.social/tags/mozilla
Can you be more specific than pointing in a vague direction?
This is trolling. It is beyond self-evident that the Open Source fediverse has thoroughly criticized the latest Mozilla move. I myself point out device fingerprinting and third party vendors. You respond to neither approach. You want me to do homework and quantify the sentiment on the trending Mozillla hashtag? Sealioning. Diigressing the topic of conversation? Report and block you sad impotent spook troll.
Onus probandi.
You make the claims, you serve the proof. You can't point at a vague, general direction and go "here, proof!". Especially not a social media feed, that's the most subjective, volatile "proof" you could provide.
Quote me the text, in its full context, where it says that Mozilla is selling the data they are "now collecting", or that it was optional for them without degrading services. Because I can't find it.
All I see is data that Mozilla is required to collect to provide existing services, they are now putting it in black on white. I don't really care what the "general opinion" is, opinions do not automatically become facts once sufficient people hold them.
I've seen Mozilla do bad stuff, this is just a very standard privacy policy update. Let's criticize them when they actually deserve it, and encourage them the rest of the time.
Also, nice strawman instead of simply answering my question. 🥰