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If Firefox had told people they would collect data for law enforcement there would be more noise there as well. There are good and legitimate reasons for colle
by skinkestek 5y ago
If Firefox had told people they would collect data for law enforcement there would be more noise there as well.
There are good and legitimate reasons for collecting user data, but many of us think it should be voluntarily, minimal and at least not shared with anyone for anything but its original purpose.
In fact we had a very interesting court case in Høgsterett (kind of Supreme Court) here last week where it was finally decided that the police could not aquire biological samples from the university of Oslo to help in a missing person investigation as the person in question had not agreed to it, so obviously some very influential judges in one civilized country do agree.
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That said, between the I Robot extension, mandatory data collection and the gutting of the extension system Mozilla seems to be on a multi year marathon effort to play all their cards into Googles hands.
Firefox is still my main browser though but to a large degree because the alternatives aren't quite there for me as a power user.
- hackerfromthefu 5y agoYes it certainly seems as though Mozilla (or at least their executives) have been bought and sold by Google. At this stage they seem to be toeing the line for plausible deniability of Google's monopoly, while being thoroughly defanged from doing anything to reduce the actual monopoly.
- skinkestek 5y agoJust for thr record: I'm not saying anyone should drop Firefox for a Chromium browser - that would be even worse. I am saying I want - authorities to look into these dealings - someone to create a (paid?) unborked version of modern Firefox - or a "vetted" safe version of Pale Moon or something - Google to be split into number of chunks
- Ygg2 5y agoGoogle needed to be split up decades ago.
- IshKebab 5y ago> If Firefox had told people they would collect data for law enforcement there would be more noise there as well. Erm... Firefox has told people that they would hand data to law enforcement. They have to! Everyone has to! https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/ > When do we share your information with others? > When the law requires it. We follow the law whenever we receive requests about you from a government or related to a lawsuit.