Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default

Re:Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private... by GekkePrutser on Monday March 02, 2020 @08:44AM (#22464323)

Well, Mozilla is in a hard place. They're already losing browser marketshare, and they don't want to annoy people by breaking stuff. A lot of these people use Google and Facebook services and don't understand when these sites get broken. That'll give Firefox a bad name and hurt its marketshare even more.

uBlock origin is a third-party project they don't control so I can't blame them for not including it.

I agree about the analytics and telemetry though.

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Re:Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private... by coribuci on Monday March 02, 2020 @09:37AM (#22464754)

> Well, Mozilla is in a hard place. They're already losing browser marketshare, and they don't want to annoy people by breaking stuff.

Well, the web was always like sw development: if it compiles - release it - and let the user test it. Mozilla ( and Chrome and ...) breaks stuff with every release. Yes, your facebook may be perfect but internet is not only google and facebook.

> uBlock origin is a third-party project they don't control so I can't blame them for not including it.

They don't include it because that will hurt they revenue. They are not "free sw" anymore. Unfortunately this seems to be a trend in open source world when a company (Hi Canonical) starts making money by selling user data(legal spyware).

> I agree about the analytics and telemetry though.

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