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Mozilla depends almost entirely on Google and other advertisement companies for revenue, whatever privacy posturing they put in place is just means to drive peo
by seemslegit 7y ago
Mozilla depends almost entirely on Google and other advertisement companies for revenue, whatever privacy posturing they put in place is just means to drive people away from extensions whose block lists Mozilla does not control.
- smt88 7y agoMost users are going to use Google regardless. You could say that the user trusts Google, even if we know they shouldn't. Firefox cripples Google's ability to track the user either way, especially with uBlock Origin and Google Container installed. Even better, it prevents ISPs and other parties that the user doesn't trust from tracking them.
- seemslegit 7y agoWhy does one's use of google services allow you to assume that they trust google but one's use of an ISP services doesn't assume they trust the ISP ?
- smt88 7y agoBecause in the US, most ISPs are a monopoly. Google isn't.
- seemslegit 7y agoOk let's roll with this, although just between the cellular data carriers there are more choices than between web-scale search engines or smartphone platforms. If you had plenty of ISPs to choose from and all were in the habit of mining and monetizing your browsing data simply because that's legal and profitable should Mozilla recognize you as implicitly trusting the most dominant one that also happens to be paying them ?
- smt88 7y agoIt's a false analogy. Not all search engines track or monetize you. A user can choose DuckDuckGo. There is no DuckDuckGo for ISPs. This hypothetical is even less relevant when you consider that Mozilla protects you from Google using blockers and also from ISPs using DNS over HTTPS.