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State of Online Privacy Reaches 'Creepy' Level

67 points by jruohonen 3y ago

mediumsmart 3y ago
The majority of Mozilla Corporation’s revenue is from royalties earned through Firefox web browser search partnerships around the world. Royalties for the non-profit corporation from web browser search partnerships. Technically this is Poetry, nothing creepy about it.
replaceusb 3y ago
Hollow words coming from Mozilla. They push this rhetoric with one hand, while the other plunges deeper into the monetized analytics hole.
- JohnFen 3y ago
  That doesn't make their assertion wrong, though.
johnea 3y ago
"mental health apps"? This is like offering heroin to a junkie... The overwhelming cause of millenial mental health issues are related to an overindulgence in pretending that electronic communication is a "commmunity", a place with their "friends". Living, You're doing it wrong! Get the app...
- squigz 3y ago
  Do you have any source for that?
  - westmeal 3y ago
    People chronically addicted to the internet tend to be depressed. This is a anecdote though but I get it.
    - JohnFen 3y ago
      It could also be that chronically depressed people tend to get addicted to the internet. It's very error-prone to assume causal links by how things look.
      - westmeal 3y ago
        Very good point.
themensch 3y ago
Pretty creepy that they need my email to tell me which of the shockingly few services they're asking about are creepy.
- japorized 3y ago
  There’s a button to skip it, though you might have to first click on the input box to get it to show up.
  - crtasm 3y ago
    It appeared immediately here. More bothered by the embeds from fundraiseup.com, google-analytics.com, googletagmanager.com, sentry.io, shpg.org .
    - myaccountonhn 3y ago
      I agree. I find the content Mozilla Foundation posts to be very good (their podcast, research and articles are excellent). However, when they rely on Google for funding the browser and invoke tracking into their website it does scream a bit of whitewashing. Hopefully they are able to fix that to be more morally consistent.
- deleted 3y ago
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PlunderBunny 3y ago
“Inspired by the iconic Doomsday Clock…” The Doomsday clock is iconic. A 90s emoji on a garish slider, not so much.
exo762 3y ago
Of popular gadgets, Garmin watches (at least fenix series) can work without any additional connectivity and will do all metrics processing on the device.
- rnk 3y ago
  I love the great battery life and the lack of required connection on garmins. I had an apple but who wants that daily charge requirement.
- wkat4242 3y ago
  Even huami (Xiaomi or amazfit) watches, while terrible for privacy out of the box, can be made super privacy friendly with gadgetbridge. An open source sync app that doesn't even have internet access. And they're a lot cheaper, thinner and lighter than Garmin has to offer, and run weeks on battery <3
type0 3y ago
> Meaningful consent is becoming increasingly difficult for consumers; for instance ... https://tosdr.org https://tosdr.org is good for that, why don't Mozilla just contribute to an existing project

67 points by jruohonen 3y ago

The majority of Mozilla Corporation’s revenue is from royalties earned through Firefox web browser search partnerships around the world. Royalties for the non-profit corporation from web browser search partnerships. Technically this is Poetry, nothing creepy about it.

replaceusb 3y ago

Hollow words coming from Mozilla. They push this rhetoric with one hand, while the other plunges deeper into the monetized analytics hole.

JohnFen 3y ago
That doesn't make their assertion wrong, though.

johnea 3y ago

"mental health apps"? This is like offering heroin to a junkie... The overwhelming cause of millenial mental health issues are related to an overindulgence in pretending that electronic communication is a "commmunity", a place with their "friends". Living, You're doing it wrong! Get the app...

squigz 3y ago
Do you have any source for that?
- westmeal 3y ago
  People chronically addicted to the internet tend to be depressed. This is a anecdote though but I get it.
  - JohnFen 3y ago
    It could also be that chronically depressed people tend to get addicted to the internet. It's very error-prone to assume causal links by how things look.
    - westmeal 3y ago
      Very good point.

themensch 3y ago

Pretty creepy that they need my email to tell me which of the shockingly few services they're asking about are creepy.

japorized 3y ago
There’s a button to skip it, though you might have to first click on the input box to get it to show up.
- crtasm 3y ago
  It appeared immediately here. More bothered by the embeds from fundraiseup.com, google-analytics.com, googletagmanager.com, sentry.io, shpg.org .
  - myaccountonhn 3y ago
    I agree. I find the content Mozilla Foundation posts to be very good (their podcast, research and articles are excellent). However, when they rely on Google for funding the browser and invoke tracking into their website it does scream a bit of whitewashing. Hopefully they are able to fix that to be more morally consistent.
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PlunderBunny 3y ago

“Inspired by the iconic Doomsday Clock…” The Doomsday clock is iconic. A 90s emoji on a garish slider, not so much.

exo762 3y ago

Of popular gadgets, Garmin watches (at least fenix series) can work without any additional connectivity and will do all metrics processing on the device.

rnk 3y ago
I love the great battery life and the lack of required connection on garmins. I had an apple but who wants that daily charge requirement.
wkat4242 3y ago
Even huami (Xiaomi or amazfit) watches, while terrible for privacy out of the box, can be made super privacy friendly with gadgetbridge. An open source sync app that doesn't even have internet access. And they're a lot cheaper, thinner and lighter than Garmin has to offer, and run weeks on battery <3

type0 3y ago

> Meaningful consent is becoming increasingly difficult for consumers; for instance ... https://tosdr.org https://tosdr.org is good for that, why don't Mozilla just contribute to an existing project