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Luckily, Mozilla is a non-profit organization. Their interests do not conflict with protecting their users. But it makes you wonder, if other browser vendors'

Luckily, Mozilla is a non-profit organization. Their interests do not conflict with protecting their users. But it makes you wonder, if other browser vendors' interests do conflict with ad blocking, why would they ship with uBlock Origin? They would want to control what most people do by controlling the defaults. The vast majority of users never change the default settings.

Proven 6y ago
> Luckily, Mozilla is a non-profit organization. Their interests do not conflict with protecting their users. What? Do interests of Amazon conflict with AWS protecting their users, because both sides profit from the relationship? uBlock (and other add-ons) clean cookies everywhere and can do it consistently and is a better choice for anyone who uses more than one browser because you set it consistently across all browsers and you're done.
quadrangle 6y ago
Mozilla is a non-profit that owns a for-profit corporation which makes Firefox. And their funding largely comes from Google paying them to keep Google as the default search. There's not a mission-level conflict-of-interest, but there's a practical one. Until they can somehow be funded directly by users, Firefox will have this tension of "don't piss off Google or other referral partners, even if that means going against the users' interests". They won't serve the users well by losing all their funding and then dying. This situation is why Firefox and Mozilla aren't just everything they could be in terms of completely aligned with users.
ocdtrekkie 6y ago
It's worth noting that while Mozilla is a nonprofit organization, it certainly retains a huge conflict of interest: It's primary financial sponsor is still Google. If Firefox was solely aligned with protecting their users, the default search would be DuckDuckGo, not Google, and it would fully block Google Analytics, Fonts, and AdSense right out of the box.
dependenttypes 6y ago
> Their interests do not conflict with protecting their users. Which is why they have things like telemetry, backdoors like normandy, tracking via safebrowsing, unblockable tracking via google analytics in about:addons and any mozilla pages, a great track record with pocket and the mr robot addon, tracking-related bugs which have gone ignored for years, and richly paid executives, right?

Proven 6y ago

> Luckily, Mozilla is a non-profit organization. Their interests do not conflict with protecting their users. What? Do interests of Amazon conflict with AWS protecting their users, because both sides profit from the relationship? uBlock (and other add-ons) clean cookies everywhere and can do it consistently and is a better choice for anyone who uses more than one browser because you set it consistently across all browsers and you're done.

quadrangle 6y ago

Mozilla is a non-profit that owns a for-profit corporation which makes Firefox. And their funding largely comes from Google paying them to keep Google as the default search. There's not a mission-level conflict-of-interest, but there's a practical one. Until they can somehow be funded directly by users, Firefox will have this tension of "don't piss off Google or other referral partners, even if that means going against the users' interests". They won't serve the users well by losing all their funding and then dying. This situation is why Firefox and Mozilla aren't just everything they could be in terms of completely aligned with users.

ocdtrekkie 6y ago

It's worth noting that while Mozilla is a nonprofit organization, it certainly retains a huge conflict of interest: It's primary financial sponsor is still Google. If Firefox was solely aligned with protecting their users, the default search would be DuckDuckGo, not Google, and it would fully block Google Analytics, Fonts, and AdSense right out of the box.

dependenttypes 6y ago

> Their interests do not conflict with protecting their users. Which is why they have things like telemetry, backdoors like normandy, tracking via safebrowsing, unblockable tracking via google analytics in about:addons and any mozilla pages, a great track record with pocket and the mr robot addon, tracking-related bugs which have gone ignored for years, and richly paid executives, right?