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Really? How so? I've been a Firefox user ever since the beginning and I can't remember once when they violated my trust. It seems to me that Mozilla is held t
by bad_user 7y ago
Really? How so?
I've been a Firefox user ever since the beginning and I can't remember once when they violated my trust.
It seems to me that Mozilla is held to much higher standards in this community. I often see a huge double standard.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoThe Looking Glass extension, the whole deal with pocket, and Studies being on by default and allowing them to push changes remotely with no user action. I don't use Firefox currently, so these are just what I recall from HN posts.
- bad_user 7y agoI love Pocket, I love seeing them experiment with such services and I don’t get what the big deal is. Sure they could have pushed it as an extension instead, but note that nowadays Mozilla owns it so the issue is irrelevant. The source code for the Looking Glass extension was open source and was a mistake, they are only human. Nowadays every platform maker has the capability to push changes via updates. This increases security for regular users and it’s what the default should be. I agree that there needs to be a way to turn off these updates for power users. No, those issues haven’t violated my trust in them and when you compare it with what companies like Google are doing, the double standard should be clear as day.