Mozilla Is Becoming Evil

I must be tired — the first instance of kook-edge writing (scare quotes, "allegedly", etc) makes me just stop reading. Those 5G towers are "harmless", d'you hear, unixsheikh?

Mozilla is not becoming evil, it already became evil, or at least as bad as the others, except the others are at least honest and don't make bold claims regarding privacy.

Upon first start Firefox opens a Mozilla webpage that includes Google Analytics. There is no opting out of that short of expecting it in advance and disabling your network connection before launching the browser. Their defence is that they have a "special argument" with Google and they pinky-promise not to use the data for any other purpose. Facebook also pinky-promised to not use 2FA phone numbers for advertising and then broke that promise (and got away with it, telling others they can do it too and get away with it easily).

Firefox has opt-out telemetry, which is already in breach of the GDPR. The GDPR states that any non-essential data collection should be opt-in, and telemetry is definitely not essential. Worse, Firefox has telemetry to count the percentage of users who disable telemetry, which means there is no user-friendly way to completely prevent it from phoning home.

Sources: https://twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/11658588961766604...

Their "tracking protection" explicitly whitelists Google and Facebook even though they are the two biggest offenders when it comes to privacy and you'd expect even the worst tracking protection solution to at least block some resources on those domains, but instead Firefox explicitly whitelists everything on there.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20112398

For a browser and company that boasts about privacy every possible time they are actually putting people at risk by giving them a false sense of security.