Comment by rvz
1 year ago
All talk of "Privacy", "Principles" and "Promises" from Mozilla was already empty as they were completely dependent on Google's money.
This should surprise absolutely no-one and Mozilla never cared about their claims of privacy or their users as long as Google was paying them.
So now we know that when it comes down to the wire as their biggest customer (Google) was under anti-trust scrutiny; indirectly threatening Mozilla's deal with Google, They once again chose to violate the privacy of their users to sell their data to other companies like Google.
For Mozilla, money has always crushed their so-called "principles".
I bet there are still some software developers there who genuinely care about the mission.
Other than that, I've had to backspace and abort comments so much tonight, because I was angry beyond decorum, at the repeated betrayals.
Cool down friend.
There will always be great people building alternatives.
We need a trustworthy Web browser. There isn't one. And such a massive complexity moat has been created with de facto standards, and also made a moving target, that some nice programmer's temporary hobby project isn't a viable solution.
The illusion of mozilla having any privacy principles collapsed for me on May 2019 when they required users to enable telemetry to allow using adblock and tracking blocking extensions.