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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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