What are they missing? So far, all they’ve added is a sidebar and a couple extra right-click menu additions. Both of these are available for all extensions.

And yet, Mozilla went for the 10% that do violate your privacy and gives your data to the biggest corporations: Google, Microsoft, OpenAI.

What happened to the Mozilla Manifesto?

If it was truly opt-in, it could be an extension. They should not be bundling this with the browser, bloating it more in the process.

AI already has ethical issues, and environmental issues, and privacy issues, and centralization issues. You technically can run your own local AI, but they hook up to the big data-hungry ones out of the box.

Look at the Firefox subreddit. One month ago, people were criticizing the thought of adding AI to Firefox. Two months ago, same thing. Look at the Firefox community. See how many times people requested AI.

Did they actually say that?

I think we need to Wait and See, to give the ad company the benefit of the doubt. And by “the ad company,” I’ll let you figure out whether I’m referring to Mozilla or Google.

Why are you applying the Wait And See philosophy to Firefox but not to Chrome?

Seems a bit… Reactionary.

Based on the content of that article, the problem is not that DRM is currently in Firefox, but the process by which DRM became mandatory in browsers to begin with.

Second ad company, if you count FakeSpot selling private data to other ad providers!

And those are probably the "anything"s they would rather not respond to.

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The trouble with “wait and see” is that people will often forget what we were waiting for.

Speaking of which, do you remember FakeSpot? That was Mozilla’s first foray into directly selling private data to ad companies. At the time, a lot of people said, “they might allow it now, but let’s wait and see.”

And today, Mozilla FakeSpot continues selling data to ad companies.

It’s a shame Mozilla hasn’t added a way to put custom widgets in the New Tab Page. It’s relatively inconsequential compared to the whole Mozilla situation, but in a perfect world, I think it would be nice to have.

It feels like they heard about what Bill Gates did to Paul Allen and decided to replicate it.

It’s really disheartening. Among other things, Steve fought against the firing of employees in general because Mozilla was actually turning a profit under his leadership.

Based on this and a couple Reddit threads I have since uncovered, he seems like a generally upstanding guy. And he’s on Mastodon, @stevetex@mozilla.social

I think you can add your own money into Brave to tip people extra.

And the biggest difference is…

• Brave sold itself on this as a feature since day one
• Brave had the audience who wanted this
• The Brave software is a known factor; what’s going to happen to Firefox is unknown.

I don’t like to speculate, but I think it was mental illness, which may have started during the CopperheadOS days (the predecessor to Graphene).

Unfortunately, that does call into question the recommendations on that page, which I already had a little worry about because Vanadium is their thing, of course they’re going to recommend it.

But I do genuinely want to know how significant of a risk this lack of isolation and sandboxing causes.

I too have a hard time telling whether the isolation features is a huge security risk or a minor one because things get too technical too quickly for me to follow.

Case in point, this website makes it sound relatively trivial just due 8 how technical it is (Ctrl+F for Firefox)

https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing

Fun fact: Cliqz also developed a search engine, which later got purchased by Brave and renamed Brave Search.

Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of ads injected in one particular Firefox profile. All I have to do to make it go away (for now) is to switch to a different tab container.

But this is Google rolling out anti-ad-blocking technology and testing the waters. So your mileage may vary.

Yes, but it’s not very easy. I used ViolentMonkey with this userscript.

Edit: your method is really cool too

Personally I disagree with the conclusions stated by the blog post, but I can respect the reasoning for getting there, and I can draw my own conclusions from it myself.

All I can do is tap on the little graphic I made from their last buyout (that literally made Mozilla into an data broker):

FakeSpot privacy lowlights (I can’t tell if the image is linking correctly)

The wing of Mozilla that puts out press releases about invasive car companies seems to have no influence on the wing of Mozilla acquiring and injecting random crap into Firefox.