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I previously had bad luck with DRM content in forks, so I’m curious if things get better. Right now I’m hanging onto my current FF and watching changelogs like a hawk.

(case in point: the Weather display is sponsored content.)

Do you access DRM-protected media on it, ever?

Watched 100% of the video and, as expected, the defense is “I trust Mozilla.”

These comments aged well

I swear that, at one point, the Mozilla websites said that every company under the MoCo banner would uphold the same ethical values as the Foundation, its parent, espoused. If that’s still the case, it seems Mozilla is still sort of upholding their consistency, but it’s eroding the base product.

Personally, I don’t see any reason to sell any of that data to advertisement corporations. Not browsing history, not physical location, not compiled profiles of its users! (Up until December 2024, Mozilla’s other in-house AI product, Orbit, also gave FakeSpot a shout-out for unknown reasons…)

Mozilla FakeSpot promises that the following “is Sold and/or Shared [with] Advertising partners”:

• “browsing history, search history”
• “Geolocation data”
• “a profile about a consumer”

Instead of aligning FakeSpot (which they bought in 2023) with their pro-privacy stance, it seems they are realigning their stance with their actual activity.

Brownie points for being honest, I guess.

Realistically, permanently walking away from K-9 Mail never was an option in the past. There was no one else to take over as a maintainer. It would have most likely meant the end of the project. K-9 Mail was always too important to me to let that happen. But this is no longer an issue. There’s now a whole team behind the project and me stepping away no longer is an existential threat to the app.

Good on Mozilla for helping Thunderbird continue!

Where will this show up? I recently updated my Nightly but I don’t think it’s there.

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If you missed it, Mozilla outsourced the production of this logo to a professional design firm. The previous logo redesign was crowdsourced, with fans voting on their favorite design. It feels rather metaphorical, doesn’t it…

Edit: How did I miss their #1 promise to shift even more into being an Ad Company

While Firefox remains the core of what we do, we also need to take steps to diversify: investing in privacy-respecting advertising…

Kind of ironic that Raffi Krikorian is both

• The new chair of Mozilla.ai, a $30 million project geared towards advancing environmentally unfriendly slop
• The CTO of Emerson Collective, a “philanthropic” corporation that allegedly cares about the environment

Raffi, if you’re reading this, the best thing you could do for both Firefox and the environment is to pocket your entire salary, wind down your division (and if you must lay off employees, let them pocket theirs!), and return the remainder of the $30m to Mozilla for development of Firefox.

One potential workaround, if you’re okay with using extra software, is making a script with AutoHotKey to intercept Ctrl+Alt+X and fire a different key combo in its stead.

This doesn’t fix the issue with the Firefox but, you know, it’s something.

Firefox will upgrade page loads to HTTPS and gracefully fall back to HTTP if that does not succeed. This behavior is known as HTTPS-First.

Wasn’t this already the case? For a while?! I don’t know whether this means HTTPS sites will load more reliably, or HTTP sites will.

AI Chatbot access is now being gradually rolled out to all users.

Hooray

To use this optional feature, choose AI Chatbot from the sidebar

Oh it’s migrated to be even more prominent now

or from Firefox Labs

… Despite still being labeled experimental

Pro tip: Long-clicking the Back button gives you a mini history to choose from. It works on the desktop and on mobile Firefox too, in the overflow menu’s Back button.

Not quite the same as this fix, but this knowledge has saved me from hunting through browsing history a few times.

Mozilla FakeSpot sells your private data (profile, location, browsing and search history) to advertising companies.

https://lemm.ee/comment/11216210

And when Mozilla released the Orbit AI assistant, they linked to FakeSpot for some reason…

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The official Deepfake Detector privacy policy is missing from the FakeSpot website. This is the one Mozilla links from their extension policy.

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Firefox may be bad in many ways, but the biggest alternatives are generally worse. There are some reasonably good forks like Zen and LibreWolf, but if you have the wherewithal to patch Firefox’s user.js on a desktop, you’ll probably be better off with a patched Firefox.

https://lemmy.world/post/4064988

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-09-24-harden-firefox-with-arkenfox.html

Kind of funny they list their built-in, paid VPN as a positive feature and not a negative. Maybe they were running out of good things to say about… Themselves.

Granted, Mozilla also shot themselves in the foot by saying Firefox was better for not blocking ads by default, but that’s a different story for a different day

News feeds seem to be a symptom of enshittifiaction. At least you can still get a functional and minimalist homepage on Firefox by disabling it.

Remember Google Now, that “homepage for you” on Android that showed you the weather, reminders, calendar events, etc… But eventually Google removed all the functionality and replaced it with an infinite feed of news slop.

Slop. Feed. Rather synonymous.

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