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> Privacy starts with a Mozilla Account

I like how the solution to the privacy issue is _yet another account_. I don't know why, but I find it highly amusing. I do get it, you need to share your details with them so they know which details to delete, but I still can't help but laugh.

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For something like this to work you have to trust SOMEONE. And Mozilla is definitely more trustworthy then others in the space.

Eh kind of. One of the recent themes at our all hands was “data collection for user benefit” which I’m sure is what every company says.

What does this even mean? How does Mozilla know what benefits me, the user?

For example, Firefox can collect quite a bit of data regarding what hardware correlates with what type of crashes on what code paths. It doesn't have to know anything about you to know that fewer crashes benefit you.

I attempted to use this, entered my email, was prompted with a "create your account" page, laughed out loud and closed the tab. This is a comical misunderstanding of what the product even IS or DOES.

competitors require an account too?

How do they think they’re supposed to do their job if they don’t even have a way to identify you in the first place. What is comical is your blend of ignorance of the technical needs of the product and arrogance to suggest that it should be done in this “magical anonymous way” that nobody seems to grok.

Capitalism's whole thing is create the sickness and sell the cure, right?

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