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The fact that some people don't trust Mozilla enough to enable telemetry but then install a custom build by random developer simply blows my mind.
by mozvalentin 3y ago
The fact that some people don't trust Mozilla enough to enable telemetry but then install a custom build by random developer simply blows my mind.
- sedatk 3y agoThey may not be the same person, you know.
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- dvh 3y agoFrom a website with autoplay music
- danpalmer 3y agoThis is a fairly common cognitive dissonance I see in technology – preferring small developers/publishers/etc with essentially no basis for trust over big companies who are subject to legislation all around the world and have strong compliance procedures, auditing, security assessments, chains of trust, etc. The latter is more secure in almost every case, in almost every way you can analyse the problem, but at a human level it's easier to trust one person whose name you know over a company where you can't point to any specific individual. When you know someone personally then perhaps this is a reasonable trade-off to make, but "on the internet nobody knows you're a dog"[1]. People form parasocial relationships with individuals, movements, influencers, etc, and really there's not much to trust about them. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you%27re_a_dog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...
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- throwitaway999 3y agoAn organization like Mozilla may have more resiliency against distributing something malicious, as they define "malicious". An individual may be more likely to agree with your own definition of "malicious".