Comment by 93po
3 months ago
Controlled opposition is absolutely a thing, and to think that people at trillion dollar companies wouldn't do this is naive. I'm not claiming for a fact that mozilla is controlled opposition, i'm just saying it's very feasible that it could be, and i look for signs of it.
You give examples of things they disagree on, and i wouldn't refute that. However i would say that google is going to pick and choose their battles, because ultimately things they appear to "lose on" sort of don't matter. fingerprinting is a great example - yes, firefox provides it, but it's still largely pretty useless, and its impact is even more meaningless because so few people use it. if you have javascript on and arent using a VPN, chances are your anti-fingerprinting isn't actually doing much other than annoying you and breaking sites.
the only real thing to be used for near-complete-anonymity is Tor, but only when it's also used in the right way, and when JavaScript is also turned off. And even then there are ways it could and probably has failed.
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