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O nowej strategii Mozilli i pułapce entuzjastów mówi @Techaltar w najnowszym filmie który polecam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw-XYrMFb0A

#Mozilla



Es mag schwer verständlich sein, aber #Mozilla und andere verstoßen gegen geltendes Recht, auch wenn sie »nur« anonymisierte Telemetriedaten sammeln. Nach dem #TDDDG ist es unerheblich, ob die Daten anonym, pseudonym oder personenbezogen sind. Entscheidend ist, ob Informationen auf dem Endgerät gespeichert oder daraus ausgelesen werden. Beides erfordert nach § 25 Abs. 1 TDDDG eine Einwilligung, sofern es nicht »technisch erforderlich« ist. Sorry Folks. 👇

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/thunderbird-fuer-android-telemetrie-daten-werden-bereits-beim-start-erfasst/


It's clear what #Mozilla leadership was actually paid for.


Mozilla leadership
(in ref to https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/113153943609185249 )

#comic #firefox #mozilla


We’ve made the hard decision to end our experiment with Mozilla.social and will shut down the Mastodon instance on December 17, 2024. Thank you for being part of the Mozilla.social community and providing feedback during our closed beta. You can continue to use Mozilla.social until December 17. Before that date, you can download your data here (https://mozilla.social/settings/export), and migrate your account to another instance following these instructions (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozilla-social-faq).

A four panel comic parody of an internet meme: "Putting on Clown Makeup", but this time the man is a fox with a tail in fire  as a ref to the Firefox mascot.


I just saw that Mozilla is retiring Mozilla Location Services which provided an open, crowdsourced alternative to proprietary location services from Google and other vendors. 😰

https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065

This is used by GNOME and thus Fedora, Ubuntu, Endless OS, etc. to help provide OS-level location services without requiring every app to implement its own. And apparently a patent troll is part of the reason Mozilla stopped investing in it. 🙃

#OpenSource #Linux #GNOME #Mozilla



Why I use #Firefox


  1. The about:config page
  2. Mozilla cannot decrypt my data on their servers
  3. Translating web pages is also completely private
  4. Mozilla develops their own browser engine
  5. The best support for extensions on #Android
  6. A great picture-in-picture player


I #trust #Mozilla more than I trust #Google, #Apple, #Microsoft, or any other company that makes #web browsers. This trust is based on the fact that Mozilla chooses the highest level of user privacy when developing services such as Firefox Sync, Firefox Translate, and others. A web browser is an integral part of a person’s #online life, so it makes sense to choose a #browser from a company that one trusts the most.


source: https://šime.eu/3


#software #freedom #opensource #foss #floss #internet #privacy #security #www #surfing



The mental gymnastics skills of folks attempting to justify Mozilla paying their CEO $7 million while asking for donations.

#mozilla


#Mozilla asks for donations to reach half of their CEO's yearly salary, while people are getting laid off. Seems to me that the solution is simple.

[edit] Okay, this has gotten a lot of buzz, and I'm happy people respectfully weighed in with arguments and counterarguments. I'm not giving up on #Mozilla and #FireFox, nor on other initiatives for a better web. I am, however, going to be muting this now.

The yearly salary of the Mozilla Foundation Chairwoman is twice that what they ask in yearly donations.


No one should 'win' #ActivityPub. The whole point of federation is to not have a winner, and to get away from this corporate mentality.

By doing so, we can all win, not just a few execs, companies, worldviews.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network

#mozilla #smh #dweb


LibreWolf: Custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security & freedom
https://librewolf.net
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37431474

* HN discussion of some interest: back and forth ... mainly regarding forks and trust vs. companies (Mozilla; others) and trust ... [transparency ...]

LibreWolf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreWolf
* free OS web browser; fork of Firefox w. emphasis on privacy & security

#WebBrowsers #OpenSource #Firefox #LibreWolf #privacy #surveillance #Linux #Mozilla

LibreWolf

Main Features

* No Telemetry. No experiments, adware, annoyances, or unnecessary distractions.

* Private Search. Privacy-conscious search providers: DuckDuckGo, Searx, Qwant and more.

*Content Blocker Included. uBlock Origin is already included for your convenience.

* Enhanced Privacy. Hardened to maximize privacy, without sacrificing usability.

* Fast Updates. LibreWolf is always built from the latest Firefox stable source, for up-to-date security and features along with stability.

* Open Source. Everyone can participate in the development of LibreWolf. Join us on GitLab, Codeberg and Matrix.

Source: https://librewolf.net/


If you’re switching to #Firefox, remember Firefox is not private by default. Consider the #LibreWolf fork, which is. Otherwise, go into your settings and adjust its tracking features (like having #Google as the default search engine), turn off telemetry, “experiments”, etc.

(Also, if you all switch and Google goes bankrupt, #Mozilla will go bankrupt too because they exist thanks to half a billion dollars a year from Google. So remember Google must survive for Mozilla to survive.)

#chrome


Why on #discord, not on #Matrix, where there is already the #KDE, #Mozilla, and many others open-source communities?


LibreJS: an addon blocking non-free JavaScript by the @fsf

📎: https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/

Non-official 📎: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/librejs/

#FOSS #Freedom #Mozilla #Addons #JavaScript #FSF #FreeSoftware #FLOSS


Corporate takeover news..

In the latest move #Meta has joined the #W3C #SocialCG - the community group that created the #ActivityPub Recommendation - in the form of their employee Ben Savage, who is already involved in another community group, together with #Mozilla

https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/ipa


Mozilla’s new Mozilla.Social Mastodon instance is an attempt to reinvent content moderation - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/23710406/mozilla-social-mastodon-fediverse-moderation

#mozilla #fediverse #mastodon #theverge


ICD #34 - Co jeśli nie Facebook, Instagram i reszta? Fediverse!


Content warning: #aplikacje #apple #bezpieczeństwo #big #czas #działać #facebook #fediverse #firefox #google #internet #kontrola #korporacje #linux #media #mozilla #nowoczesne #opensource #Podcast #prawa #privacy #prywatność #security #social #tech #technologia #technolog


screenshot - strona główna openai w roku 2016


In early 2023, #Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the #Fediverse at Mozilla.Social.

More info here: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/


… Or, in what a previous head of public policy at Mozilla told me while we were chatting before our talks at a data protection conference:

“Aral, we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company, I don’t understand why you’re holding us to a such a higher standard.”

When I finally managed to pick my jaw off the floor the only retort I could manage was: “But that’s not what you tell people.”

3/3

#Mozilla #fediverse #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #BigTech


#Mozilla is creating a fediverse instance. What is Mozilla?

• A “not-for-profit” that owns multiple for-profit businesses and pays its CEO $5.6M
• Gets ~83% of its revenue (~$500,000,000) every year from surveillance capitalist Google
• Makes a browser that protects your privacy (*some configuration required)
• Is now a VC…

This is the best we can expect from Silicon Valley/capitalism. Question is: can we do better than that?

Sources: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-2021-fs-final-1010.pdf, https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-990-ty21-public-disclosure.pdf

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Screenshot of Firefox Data Collection and Use section showing the defaults in the settings which allow Allow firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla, Allow Firefox to make personalized extension recommendations and Allow Firefox to install and run studies.
Screenshot showing that the default search engine in the Firefox browser is Google.


#Mozilla just announced they are joining the #fediverse :fediverse:

"In early 2023, Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social"

they will start with Mastodon, but are "looking forward to working on the challenges that crosscut the Fediverse"

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/ #FediNews


Wow. So the concerns about the #root #CA trustcor were enough to get them removed from the root CA program in Mozilla (which means they'll probably be removed from Chrome/Edge/etc). Read more here: https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-policy/c/oxX69KFvsm4/m/yLohoVqtCgAJ

TL;DR: a good thing happened today, #Mozilla stood up for your rights and safety.


It is so amazing what #Mozilla has achieved:

Back in 2013 asm.js, which has now evolved into #WebAssembly #WASM - one of the most relevant technologies for computing in the future.

2015, what has started as a research project by Graydon Hoare, the #Rust programming language, which will define how we will develop software in the future.

I think people don't appreciate this enough.

#Innovation #Appreciation #ThankYouMozilla


The layoffs at #Mozilla will have many consequences. One that I expect to happen that hasn't been talked about a lot, is that with many high-profile #Rust developers going to other companies, adoption of the language in the industry will accelerate. I also expect some promising new projects will emerge once the dust has settled.