• jet@hackertalks.com
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    8 months ago

    Fair enough, they aren’t evil to be sure.

    The Mozilla telemetry, pocket, Mozilla synchronization, experiments, the new tab page basically being an advertisement page. That leaves the sour taste in my mouth, so I don’t trust them because of that… Shady good guy vibes:)

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      8 months ago

      I dont get why everyone bitches about Pocket, tbh. Ive been a Pocket user for years and Mozilla’s purchase of them has made them better if anything.

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        8 months ago

        I’ve always liked the idea of pocket and have tried to get into using it multiple times but sadly I’m a savage who hates even using bookmarks for some reason. I just keep all of it in my brain (which tends to mean I do not keep it at all).

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          8 months ago

          It took me a long time to get used to pocket, not gonna lie. But once I did, I can’t live without it.

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      8 months ago

      They’re doing what they think they need to justify their existence, and although I personally believe being just a great browser would be enough I appreciate their communication around their ventures. It’s not great, but it’s not like they’re installing malware in the background.

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        8 months ago

        https://itsfoss.com/firefox-looking-glass-controversy/

        They get pretty close sometimes. I respect their mojo, but I don’t install vanilla Firefox anymore. On anything. For any reason. I don’t trust them anymore.

        I wish them the best, if I could donate directly to Firefox development I would, but it’s impossible with them. So I don’t. I donate to mullvad, I donate to the Tor project, and I donate to servo. That’s what I can do to make sure we maintain an open and free web

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          8 months ago

          The blog post is pretty recent but the version he’s talking about is 57 ! I’m confused, is this the ESR version ?