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I don't particularly care how much thought went into the decision: it's still the wrong decision, an utterly wrong decision. This is much like how Mozilla comp

I don't particularly care how much thought went into the decision: it's still the wrong decision, an utterly wrong decision. This is much like how Mozilla completely broke the security of its Sync protocol: sure, they thought about it and had what they believed to be convincing reasons, but they were still completely wrong. Why Mozilla why?

floatingatoll 9y ago
Your view is the one we launched with, but our users made it very clear that it wasn’t sufficient. IIRC the most-requested Sync feature for multiple years was “let me login at the library and view my open tabs and bookmarks”. Should we have rejected our users’ real-world needs, or honored their most frequent request? There’s no compromise path with the crypto - either the former, or the latter, period.
- d7C2 9y ago
  Your users are a group of individuals, not some anonymous mass. People don't have a problem with Mozilla implementing new features, people have a problem with losing control over their personal data. It's really arrogant to believe that you are entitled to making this decisions on behalf of your users. Just make it opt-in with a huge warning-sign an a message detailing how the data sharing works. Problem solved!
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y ago
  > “let me login at the library As opposed to, "automatically log me in and sync everything without asking" (I use Sync; you have to explicitly enable it and choose what to sync). > There’s no compromise path with the crypto I hope you aren't really promising that your crypto has no weaknesses and never will.