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Re:Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS looku... by heavyset_go on Thursday June 25, 2020 @04:05PM (#23644984)
> I'm really confused why Mozilla would agree to this.

If it's anything like their CloudFlare deals, then Mozilla did this because they were able to secure contracts that provide additional privacy protections for Mozilla's customers that the parent company doesn't normally provide to end-users.

In theory, those contracts should be enforceable in court. Whether or not you think the companies Mozilla contracts with will find ways to snoop on the private data anyway is a different story.

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Re:Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS looku... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday June 25, 2020 @05:24PM (#23645883)
Who are Mozilla's customers? Google are to a close approximation the only ones who pay them??
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Re:Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS looku... by heavyset_go on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:31PM (#23647447)
Customers = users. Mozilla offers paid features in Pocket and Firefox Private Network, and are looking to offer more premium tiers of services. Specifically, the customers who use or pay for FPN have additional privacy protections that CloudFlare doesn't offer to its own customers, despite FPN running on their network.
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Re:Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS looku... by nerdponx on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:04PM (#23647262)
The optimist would say s/customer/donor but I'm not an optimist.
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