3 ms·
I have spent ~10 years using Firefox daily, tweaking the config and getting the addons set up the way I want. I was a professional web developer for most of tho
by oldjokes 7y ago
I have spent ~10 years using Firefox daily, tweaking the config and getting the addons set up the way I want. I was a professional web developer for most of those years.
This is the first I have heard of Firefox changing my config settings invisibly in the background. This is obscene. Who on earth thought this was a good idea? The security ramifications are limitless.
I understand all too well that most companies have decided to start A/B testing things on subsets of users, but that doesn't mean you should force that mode of thinking into everything. What a horrible decision. I don't recall ever seeing any news or notifications or checkboxes about studies or "Normandy" at any point.
Are there some other good open source alternatives to Firefox? I remember hearing about Brave but also that it was tied into some cryptocoin nonsense, so I'm not sure what else to look at.
- syshum 7y ago>>This is the first I have heard of Firefox changing my config settings invisibly in the background. you must not have been paying attention the last 3 or so years Mozilla is doing all kinds of, IMO, unethical things with FireFox that goes against the core value of the mission statement of the Mozilla Foundation. They are too busy trying to replicate Chrome to care about privacy, security, or basic user rights
- oldjokes 7y agoI read all about the DRM stuff but I figured that was just the awful standards boards being awful standards boards. I didn't realize what a true mess Mozilla had become.
- syshum 7y agoNot just DRM Looking Glass, Pocket, Banning Plugins based on Political ideology, Backdoors like Normandy, and the STUDIES system, their creation of what amounts to Mozilla version of the Ministry of Truth, Their partnership with Cloudflare to send everyone's DNS to Cloudfare over HTTP, and whole host of other things
- jammygit 7y agoThe way that Firefox needs 5-10 privacy extensions to be usable isn't just inconvenient when the certs fail, but you also have to trust all these strangers and their extension code. I've been using brave because of that: all of that is baked in so my only extension is my password manager
- _Codemonkeyism 7y agoExactly the same here, Brave + a password manager after 25y of Firefox/Netscape/Mosaic.
- julian-klode 7y agoSo why do you use a browser made by an ad company, that is all about analysing your browser history and targetting ads at you?