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Fuuuuuck. Jesus Fucking Christ, Mozilla. You are just really set on annihilating what's left of your userbase, aren't you? Was it a rider in the contact for u

Fuuuuuck. Jesus Fucking Christ, Mozilla. You are just really set on annihilating what's left of your userbase, aren't you? Was it a rider in the contact for using Google as a default search engine? It's just gotta be, because it's hard to think of any other reason for something this anti-user being peddled with such a straight face. Working with THE worst perpetrator that is known for its complete and utter disregard for people's privacy on some PRIVACY PRESERVING bullshit feature. WHAT THE PROVERBIAL FUCK. I am speechless. (A die-hard Firefox user since the Navigator days).

ModernMech 5y ago
> A die-hard Firefox user since the Navigator days I know, talk about dying a young as a hero or living long enough to become a villain.
ramesh31 5y ago
The Mozilla we knew and loved for decades died some time around 2015-ish. Sales and marketing completely took over the organization. They've been slashing engineering projects, and pushing these "key partnerships" nonstop since then. It's very obvious the executive team there couldn't care less about the original mission anymore. Their last remaining meaningful product (Firefox) is essentially in maintenance mode at this point. It's sad to say, but they are now just another tech company interested in nothing but mining your personal data for profit.
dang 5y ago
Please make your substantive points without fulminating. Perhaps you don't owe privacy preserving advertising attributing browsers better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
- huhtenberg 5y ago
  I though you'd might have a problem with my comment. This is however an exceptional situation, a piece of news so shocking and unwelcome that the only way I can properly express the level of frustration with it is through the use of expletives and the uppercase. It is absolutely disheartening to see a long-lived and excellent piece of software being so ruthlessly, cynically and systematically destroyed. It really makes my blood boil.
  - sfink 5y ago
    I'd be fine with a criticism of the proposal or general direction. Apparently you don't believe this would actually preserve any privacy. It would be interesting to know why not. I understand the knee-jerk reaction. I agree that anything with Facebook's name associated with it is a huge red flag. And I get that there is some suspicion floating around about Mozilla's motives too, and it's easy for this to appear to be confirming the worst. But that's just gut level instinct. I'm curious about opinions about actual issues with the proposal. I personally believe that the intention here (on Mozilla's part, not Facebook's) is honorable.
  - dang 5y ago
    I hear you. The problem is that every day there are many exceptional situations making many people's blood boil. If they're all going to post like that, the site will just be all blood-boiling.
kazinator 5y ago
I don't see how this IPA thing will affect anyone using an ad blocker. Probably, just relax.

ModernMech 5y ago

> A die-hard Firefox user since the Navigator days I know, talk about dying a young as a hero or living long enough to become a villain.

ramesh31 5y ago

The Mozilla we knew and loved for decades died some time around 2015-ish. Sales and marketing completely took over the organization. They've been slashing engineering projects, and pushing these "key partnerships" nonstop since then. It's very obvious the executive team there couldn't care less about the original mission anymore. Their last remaining meaningful product (Firefox) is essentially in maintenance mode at this point. It's sad to say, but they are now just another tech company interested in nothing but mining your personal data for profit.

dang 5y ago

Please make your substantive points without fulminating. Perhaps you don't owe privacy preserving advertising attributing browsers better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

huhtenberg 5y ago
I though you'd might have a problem with my comment. This is however an exceptional situation, a piece of news so shocking and unwelcome that the only way I can properly express the level of frustration with it is through the use of expletives and the uppercase. It is absolutely disheartening to see a long-lived and excellent piece of software being so ruthlessly, cynically and systematically destroyed. It really makes my blood boil.
- sfink 5y ago
  I'd be fine with a criticism of the proposal or general direction. Apparently you don't believe this would actually preserve any privacy. It would be interesting to know why not. I understand the knee-jerk reaction. I agree that anything with Facebook's name associated with it is a huge red flag. And I get that there is some suspicion floating around about Mozilla's motives too, and it's easy for this to appear to be confirming the worst. But that's just gut level instinct. I'm curious about opinions about actual issues with the proposal. I personally believe that the intention here (on Mozilla's part, not Facebook's) is honorable.
- dang 5y ago
  I hear you. The problem is that every day there are many exceptional situations making many people's blood boil. If they're all going to post like that, the site will just be all blood-boiling.

kazinator 5y ago

I don't see how this IPA thing will affect anyone using an ad blocker. Probably, just relax.