Mozilla and Meta (Facebook) are now actually working together
Mozilla and Meta (Facebook) are now actually working together
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Mozilla and Meta (Facebook) are now actually working together
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We need a serious effort to fork Firefox that can be maintained as a sustainable open source project. I know there are a few forks floating around, but they're small projects with only a handful of contributors. These kinds of efforts will never be a serious alternative.
A web browser is one of the most important pieces of software nowadays, and currently neither Chromium nor Firefox are true community efforts. We need something on the level of the Linux Kernel Foundation in my opinion.
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I don't think there's any anti-mozilla, pro-chromium squads roaming the wilds, but yeah, Mozilla has not fallen, they're just working on a spec, with engineers from facebook, to enhance privacy.
The reason why I said it's a good thing: do you honestly trust the likes of facebook/google to design something privacy oriented, even if their intentions are entirely honest? No, of course not. Regardless of their intention, they have been built, as companies on principles opposing such design. They had to be. They don't have the people, the experience, the methodology, the principles etc.
So it's great to see them joined by someone who does (Mozilla) who I'm sure they'll respect if they want to have the proposal accepted not just by W3C, but the greater community.
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Many people are upset about this, but it is in my opinion an excellent thing. Mozilla and Facebook are working together to improve one aspect of Facebook's privacy
It's not like Mozilla is shilling and getting paid off, as some people seem to think.
This is how privacy is really improved, by working with the companies and governments that have power in the space, not by sitting in your cave using only librewolf and tor, and refusing to use anything you don't build from source and self host.
That only helps you at best, and the privacy abusers (google, facebook) will just ignore you.
How is that supposed to work? Firefox's own products in itself are not that reassuring for user privacy. It was better when Moxie collaborated with them to improve whatsapp code. At least that guy's products were respected for privacy at that time.
Even if they don't live up to your standards, you can agree they are way ahead of the competition.
I see it as on the same level of a vegan advocacy organisation working with one of the biggest meat companies in the world. Sure, the vegan org might reduce the suffering of the animals under their control, but that shouldn't be their goal, complete abolishment of animal agriculture should be.
It's an apt comparison, but do you want complete abolishment of all forms of telemetry, tracking or advertising? Or perhaps more relevant, is that Mozilla's goal? I don't think so. See this post by them.