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Re:Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy by duped on Thursday February 08, 2024 @12:10PM (#39304514)
I feel like developing consumer software products that focus on privacy is like pouring a glass of water on a forest fire. If the goal is a free, fair, and private web then those need to be the most economical and profitable values for all software developed on the web. If Mozilla offered developer focused product suites that made it so it was super cheap and easy to develop a website that was private by default then markets would do the rest.
Re:Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy by VancouverMan on Thursday February 08, 2024 @02:22PM (#39306324)
If Mozilla is truly going to be taking privacy seriously, they should start by reading the Firefox Privacy Notice:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/

Firefox could then be modified to remove the need to mention "Google", "Microsoft", "DuckDuckGo", "eBay", "our partners", "our third-party ad platform", "a third-party referral platform", "our campaign marketing vendors", "sends Mozilla", and any other companies/organizations/third-parties we find referenced in that document.

A privacy-respecting browser would never collect nor send any data beyond that necessary to provide its core web browsing functionality.

Any functionality that might compromise a user's privacy should not be bundled by default, and would instead have to be explicitly opted into by manually installing an extension that provides such functionality. This would include Firefox's/Mozilla's own "telemetry".

Re:Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy by GartzenDeHaes on Thursday February 08, 2024 @06:00PM (#39308983)
Somehow, "privacy" has come to mean protecting the spy data collected instead of not spying. It's quite literally newspeak.
Re:Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy by schoen on Thursday February 08, 2024 @06:54PM (#39309475)
I think this paper, more or less on this issue, is pretty worthwhile.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2321480