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Re:Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill ... by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:59PM (#23172322)
DNS-over-HTTPS was the big one for me. Mozilla betrayed us here. They've pushed something browsers shouldn't do into the browser, and in my case, started to roll it out to my browsers despite my network device being set to block it.

They actually managed to implement a policy that respects user choice and freedom less than Chrome, which only implements DoH if your set DNS provider supports it.

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Re:Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill ... by WarOnPrivacy on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @08:53PM (#23173851)
> DNS-over-HTTPS was the big one for me. Mozilla betrayed us here.

Betrayal indicates some intent to harm users; the intent of DoH is clearly to safeguard users. However, the rollout was absolutely hamfisted & shortsided.

It's notable that the DoH deployment is about the only example here of Firefox harming users. Compare that with Google rewriting Chrome's code to hobble uBlock Origin & leave users more vulnerable to nefarious ad tech.

The former was Mozilla putting user safety first (in a poorly handled way) while the latter was clearly Google doing the opposite.

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Re:Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill ... by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @11:50PM (#23175068)
Don't get me wrong, I would always choose Firefox over Chrome, but I lament the lack of a major option that seems to not follow Google's plans and generally assume they know better than the user how to use the web.
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