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Instant_Pot_User said:
Does anyone believe that Mozilla still cares about the "free and open web"? Are there people who still think Mozilla isn't just GOOG's anti-anti-trust lawsuit shield?
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One measly browser is not enough to be an anti-trust shield. You could make a strong case that there already is a monopoly, so I doubt that's it. Google just pays anyone for putting them as the default search engine everywhere. Including e.g. Apple.
 
Mozilla has rebranded again.

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"tee-hee, we're, like, total hackers lol"
 
HootersMcBoobies said:
Making Mozilla a protocol in the logo made more sense than this. You can sorta see their attempt at a Mozilla dinosaur within the white surrender flag, but it ends up just looking like a duck.
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It looks like someone forgot to fix the misaligned pixel on the flag and they said "eh, good enough".
 
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The core Mozilla business has shifted from Firefox and search engines... to AI, user tracking, and advertising. All while pretending to fight against the evils of "cookies" and "paywalls". Mozilla wears the costume of a superhero while, in truth, they are a villain in the struggle for online privacy.

Lunduke Journal readers already knew all that... but it's getting more overt.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKJRwzflKjc (archive.ph)(PreserveTube)

A free and open internet shouldn’t come at the expense of privacy
Mozilla Blog (archive.ph)
By Mark Surman, President, Mozilla
2024-10-03 00:39:38GMT
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Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure
Mozilla Blog (archive.ph)
By Laura Chambers, CEO, Mozilla Corporation
2024-10-03 14:27:42GMT
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Privacy-preserving digital ads infrastructure: An overview of Anonym’s technology
Mozilla Blog (archive.ph)
By Brad Smallwoood, SVP and Anonym Co-Founder
Graham Mudd, SVP of Product and Anonym Co-Founder
2024-10-04 01:20:07GMT
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clipartfan92 said:
Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure
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In my honest opinion the problem with the current advertisement infrastructure is not that advertisers tracks the users through ads. But rather how little moderation advertisement companies do when serving ads. On YouTube (with Swedish VPN server and UI set to Russian) I keep getting ads about "quick got rich scheme using Telegram/Whatsapp bot" or "some slavic woman are looking for you" bullshit that they let through their moderation. It doesn't matter how much report you report them they still keep showing up.
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Also remember when Google showed you fishing sites when you looked up for OBS or Gimp? Because they were an ad that were always on top of the results.

It is funny how usually when you want to earn money through their ads on your website. They make you go through follow their guidelines to be able to earn money on your website. They heavily moderate who hosts their ads but not the ads themselves.
  • "Oh your website has NSFW content from users?? Not advertiser friendly!"
  • "Your website hosts an opinion we don't agree??? Not advertiser friendly!"
That's why I keep recommending anyone I know to use adblockers so they don't have to see those kind of ads so they can stay safe.

Total Advertiser Death!
I really don't understand how Mozilla is going to revolutionize advertisement technology. Now they just let advertisers to keep tracking info on your browser instead of in their servers. I feel like they are trying to exploit average user not knowing how to disable this "feature" since it's enabled by default. Yeah sure power users will gladly disable or even clean that tracking information from their browser. This is a malicious act from Mozilla a corporation who's saying that they are fighting for open Internet!
 
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Tried finding basic features in Firefox, but I ended up having to search through Reddit and Stackexchance for hidden about: config hacks to re-implement what Mozilla have purposely hidden.

E.g. adding custom search engines...
And it's impossible to edit or even rename added ones without deleting and re-adding them. Can't even add an icon for them.

Or removing/tweaking that fuck ugly yellow highlight in autofilled boxes.

I hate, hate, hate the privacytubers shilling Firefox because it's not Chromium-based when it's this miserable to setup.

I could swear there were far more things to work with in settings a few years ago.

Booted up Edge of all things and I was seriously amazed with the feel of that browser. Articles and blogs still praise Firefox for it's customisability over Edge, but the reality couldn't be further from the truth.

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Magicat said:
Tried finding basic features in Firefox, but I ended up having to search through Reddit and Stackexchance for hidden about: config hacks to re-implement what Mozilla have purposely hidden.

E.g. adding custom search engines...
And it's impossible to edit or even rename added ones without deleting and re-adding them. Can't even add an icon for them.

Or removing/tweaking that fuck ugly yellow highlight in autofilled boxes.

I hate, hate, hate the privacytubers shilling Firefox because it's not Chromium-based when it's this miserable to setup.

I could swear there were far more things to work with in settings a few years ago.

Booted up Edge of all things and I was seriously amazed with the feel of that browser. Articles and blogs still praise Firefox for it's customisability over Edge, but the reality couldn't be further from the truth.

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The sole reason I use it is because it still keeps Manifest V2 around, and by extension (no pun intended) makes me more immune to the advertising networks. I am willing to sacrifice convenience to this. If I absolutely need extra bells and whistles, I get extensions for them.
 
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Squishie PP said:
The sole reason I use it is because it still keeps Manifest V2 around, and by extension (no pun intended) makes me more immune to the advertising networks. I am willing to sacrifice convenience to this. If I absolutely need extra bells and whistles, I get extensions for them.
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This and, as I outlined in the linux thread, the fact that you can set up your own sync and account server, which should also work with any of the firefox forks.
 
Magicat said:
Tried finding basic features in Firefox, but I ended up having to search through Reddit and Stackexchance for hidden about: config hacks to re-implement what Mozilla have purposely hidden.
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About : Config is one of the worst things to happen to Firefox. They not only hide tons of useful features there. But also when they force new changes on users like changing the UI or visuals the only ways to revert them are buried in obscure config toggles. The average user likely has no idea that there are hidden settings that are not available in the actual 'settings' menu.
Magicat said:
Articles and blogs still praise Firefox for it's customisability over Edge, but the reality couldn't be further from the truth.
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Firefox is still the most customizable browser but you need to be a software expert to be able to do much of anything with it. And half of the battle in customizing the software is actually fighting against Mozilla. So the browser is in a weird place at the moment where it seems like almost all of its hardcore users hate Mozilla and hate every single Firefox update.
 
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And as a commentator on Lunduke's channel points out - they chose to host this conference in a country where being gay will get you 15 years in prison to life and is covered by literally the same statute as bestiality.
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In a parallel timeline, this is how Mozilla starts its purge. The conference is the means by which it rounds up, jails and arrested dissidents. Secretly the based insurgency within Mozilla make an agreement with the Zambian government to execute all gay/trans attendees.

Mozilla then restores Brendan Eich as leader of Mozilla. Eich apologizes to the world for JavaScript, and vows to Make Firefox Great Again! Within 4 years, Mozilla regains 15% of market share, FirefoxOS is brought back and is the default OS on an up and coming TCL/Hisene competitor (fully unlockable and hackable) that grows large enough to make it to the shelves of Wal-Market. 🥳🥂
 
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