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> I'm not affiliated with Mozilla, but I do understand how wikis work. ;-)

You don't seem to understand why this is problematic though, so I'll explain it to you: enabling tracking when you know that one of your selling points to your users is respect for privacy is a huge breach of trust.

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To be fair, I don't think that has been an active Mozilla mission for close to a decade now.

They mostly exist as a Google owned shell now...

Maybe it hasn't been an active Mozilla mission for a decade in practice, but they did paid it lip service many times in the past decade, so still counts as breach of trust.

> To be fair, I don't think that has been an active Mozilla mission for close to a decade now.

Ok, maybe they should update firefox's home page, then?

Very first lines:

> Get the browser that protects what's important

> No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers. Just a lightning fast browser that doesn’t sell you out.

GP did say "active mission". I'm sure Google had "Do no evil" on their site for maybe 4 years after they in fact started being evil.

What do you expect thangalin to do with this understanding?

Be less pretentious.

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