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Mozilla flunks 25 major car brands for data privacy fails (www.theregister.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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...and the related Mozilla report

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

maybe its just me, but as useful and nice to know as this is, I really want Mozilla to focus their efforts on making a good browser, not to spend money doing everything but that.

There are a lot of anti-features (studies, pocket, telemetry, "sponsored suggestions", etc..) that are justified in "we have to make money somehow" but then they spend it on this stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hot take: their browser is good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sure, I mean I want them to focus their energy on it.
There are a lot of anti-features (studies, pocket, telemetry, "sponsored suggestions", etc..) that are justified in "we have to make money somehow" but then they spend it on this stuff.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Their goal is a healthy and open internet, with the browser being one method of achieving that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

This particular issue is important enough that I'm glad they did it. We needed somebody to do it, and if that means a tiny bit of funding was diverted from browser work, I think it was more than worth it.

(Also, the Mozilla Foundation is not the same as the Mozilla Corporation.)