Set up a new email on Gmail or Proton Mail
Two words. They could have removed two words and made the instructions infinitely better.
And this is on the web page where, if you tap on it three times, it instantly exits out and goes to DuckDuckGo. Which is pretty neat.
I don't think you have to worry too much about Mozilla running out of money. Right now, they're spending it like there's no tomorrow.
CEO salary: Mitchell Baker's salary jumped by millions of dollars while Firefox browser market share slumped.
Shopping spree: Mozilla purchased two brand new AdTech corporations in the last year or so:
Throwing cash around: If wasn't enough, Mozilla has earmarked $30 million for AI research grants, and another $30 million for random venture capital.
So in general, even if you could to donate directly to the development of Firefox, I think Mozilla should get its financial house in order before you do. (But you cannot donate to the development of Firefox, which is another reason you might want to consider withholding any donations.)
I like this post and the style of writing, but there's no way on earth this is "easy" to the average, non-technically-minded person. Never mind trying to convince the average Boomer or Gen X-er to follow these steps, it might exhaust a lot of privacy advocates or other people in technical fields. Heck, I've seen technically proficient people complain about the complexities of getting Matrix/Element encryption to work, and by comparison, that's practically a walk in the park.
(I was originally going to make a slightly more conciliatory comment, but then I realized you were not the OP of the original content. I appreciate the transfer of knowledge to the clearer web.)
Either you die young or you live long enough to turn into the Blink engine.
The fact that the United States intentionally makes these zones really subverts the conspiracy theory that the government is using 5G to control our minds (or whatever the theorists say these days).
My thought's exactly. It doesn't look perfect, but it's the first time anybody is seeing this on a nightly release. I've had my issues with Firefox, but they're really cooking right now.
This looks promising. Some of it is half-cooked, but the developers are soliciting feedback and actually responding to it there.
The dropdown should only be visible when the search bar is focused or the new tab / blank page is open
There is work being done to implement that behaviour
Back to the post, Mozilla also poses this question...
How Does This Benefit You?
...before providing some great answers. It's good to see Mozilla still knows its target audience(s) and is still capable of communicating with them.
I would have loved if they had released an anniversary icon for FF.
You might have seen it already, but is this close enough?
More like a vasectomy.
Some Bitwarden and Firefox Nightly users recently pressed Ctrl+Shift+L and discovered that instead of logging them into their various websites, Firefox enabled Firefox's AI chatbot.
You posted a privately sent email that contradicts a publicly accessible privacy policy. In the four weeks it took them to send that to you, nothing has been changed, same as the prior year. And they couldn't even bother to spell their own product name right.
Do you acknowledge that the privacy policy makes it extremely clear that they do sell private data, as outlined in the table that they made for people who struggle to read and mentally parse full paragraphs of text?
What an email to read. I find it particularly valuable for the things it does not say, but not at all encouraging.
We are in the process of updating our privacy policy for additional clarity on all the points referenced in your email.
They don't say the TOS is incorrect or too broad. And they don't say they will remove their promise to sell private data to advertisers.
At this time, Fakespot does not sell or share any user data pursuant to any applicable privacy laws.
At this time? Pursuant to the law? If Mozilla is abiding by law and nothing more, that explains why they are legally forced to admit they sell private data to advertisers.
And the law is the lowest bar imaginable. Google operates under the law. Is Mozilla not better than them?
... service providers who make Faksepot run...
...and they can't spell their own name right.
I recently downloaded Firefox Nightly and noticed some new settings that were enabled by default:
- Suggestions from Firefox Nightly
Get suggestions from the web related to your search- Suggestions from sponsors
Support Firefox Nightly with occasional sponsored suggestions
The link in the UI doesn't mention sponsorships anywhere. But this page does:
Who are Mozilla’s partners for sponsored suggestions?
We partner with organizations to serve up some of these suggestion types... For sponsored results, we primarily work with adMarketplace, while also providing non-sponsored results from Wikipedia.
This page links to the adMarketplace Privacy Policy which makes it pretty clear this company is okay with collecting your IP address and passing it to further unnamed entities.
Elsewhere, they say Firefox sends them "the number of times Firefox suggests or displays specific content and your clicks on that content, as well as basic data about your interactions with Firefox Suggest", and then will share interaction information "in an aggregate manner with our partners".
Update: Switched the link from the Desktop to the Mobile version. Added more quotes from FF, and bolded info about their one named AdTech partner.
Hey, it's been a few weeks. Guess whether Mozilla has updated their privacy policy yet!
It's very clear what they say on their corporate website, right?