Re:Firefox partners with ProtonVPN
by gpm on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @01:33PM
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Yes, I'm sure I missed some things, I was trying to keep the list as non controversial as possible. Here are some specific responses.
1. Agreed, but at least they do prompt fairly early letting you turn it off.
2. I'm only looking at things in the release version of firefox. As I note elsewhere they treat nightly/beta users much worse. Longterm TLS over HTTPS is great for privacy, and they had to choose some provider, so I'm mostly fine with this.
3. This isn't their fault, the same applies to chrome. An extension is a third party piece of software you choose to install.
4. Again, a third party piece of software, not under their control. Further they are actively working to improve this situation and bring Tor onto mainline firefox!
1. Agreed, but at least they do prompt fairly early letting you turn it off.
2. I'm only looking at things in the release version of firefox. As I note elsewhere they treat nightly/beta users much worse. Longterm TLS over HTTPS is great for privacy, and they had to choose some provider, so I'm mostly fine with this.
3. This isn't their fault, the same applies to chrome. An extension is a third party piece of software you choose to install.
4. Again, a third party piece of software, not under their control. Further they are actively working to improve this situation and bring Tor onto mainline firefox!