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  • There was a post made my Mozilla years ago (I’m too lazy to find it). It was in the shadow of Chrome getting more scummy. Anyway, paraphrasing horribly, the idea was that the humble web browser was starting to become an increasingly personal decision. It represents you in ways that many people may not fully appreciate, comprehend, or understand. Your browser history tells people what you like, what you are afraid of. Increasingly, it tells corporations and governments who you talk to, where you’re going, and what you’re up to.

    It’s why it’s important for a browser to be built for people, not for corporations.

    It’s so sad to see how far Mozilla has gone from that stance.

    So I get how challenging and annoying changing a browser is because in many ways, it’s you. It’s who you are. But, like in life, sometimes we must choose to leave the friends who bring us down. It hurts, it sucks. But it’s the way of life.

    I’ve spent a good part of this morning switching things over to Waterfox. It’s not perfect. There are gaps and for some reason, I can port over Chrome and Edge profiles but NOT firefox profiles. But sometimes a fresh start is good too.


  • The privacy centric way for Mozilla to have address this would have been to:

    • acknowledge laws in certain countries have changed
    • Due to those new laws, the definition of “sell” has changed and Firefox may no longer be in compliance with their desire to keep your data private
    • Commit their desire to take the necessary steps to keep new versions of Firefox in line with their original vision
    • update the “we will not sell” definition to within the jurisdiction of the United States, or indicate that the definition of sell may be different in different jurisdictions
    • make the necessary extensions to jurisdictions where they were “selling” user data, self reporting where necessary