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I feel like developing consumer software products that focus on privacy is like pouring a glass of water on a forest fire. If the goal is a free, fair, and priv
by duped 3y ago
I feel like developing consumer software products that focus on privacy is like pouring a glass of water on a forest fire. If the goal is a free, fair, and private web then those need to be the most economical and profitable values for all software developed on the web. If Mozilla offered developer focused product suites that made it so it was super cheap and easy to develop a website that was private by default then markets would do the rest.
- VancouverMan 3y agoIf Mozilla is truly going to be taking privacy seriously, they should start by reading the Firefox Privacy Notice: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/ Firefox could then be modified to remove the need to mention "Google", "Microsoft", "DuckDuckGo", "eBay", "our partners", "our third-party ad platform", "a third-party referral platform", "our campaign marketing vendors", "sends Mozilla", and any other companies/organizations/third-parties we find referenced in that document. A privacy-respecting browser would never collect nor send any data beyond that necessary to provide its core web browsing functionality. Any functionality that might compromise a user's privacy should not be bundled by default, and would instead have to be explicitly opted into by manually installing an extension that provides such functionality. This would include Firefox's/Mozilla's own "telemetry".
- GartzenDeHaes 3y agoSomehow, "privacy" has come to mean protecting the spy data collected instead of not spying. It's quite literally newspeak.
- schoen 3y agoI think this paper, more or less on this issue, is pretty worthwhile. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2321480 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2321480