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  • Here's the actual privacy policy of an actual Mozilla product. Instead of being dry like privacy policies typically are, this one is practically dripping with malicious compliance.

    Your Privacy Rights. In accordance with applicable law, you may have the right to...

    Request to Opt-Out of Certain Processing Activities including, as applicable, if we process your personal information for “targeted advertising” (as “targeted advertising” is defined by applicable privacy laws), if we “sell” your personal information (as “sell” is defined by applicable privacy laws), or if we engage in “profiling” in furtherance of certain “decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects” concerning you (as such terms are defined by applicable privacy laws)

    It's no longer a question of if Mozilla targets you, sells your data, or profiles you. It's a question of when, and how abusively.

    ...We “sell” and “share” your personal information to provide you with “cross-context behavioral advertising” about Fakespot’s products and services.

    Again, no scare quotes are needed here. They sell your data. I don't know what "cross-context behavioral advertising" is exactly, but I'm not excited to find out.

  • Cameron Ortis said this while he was on trial for leaking info to criminals...

    After a complex trial, which included redacted documents and shielded testimony, the jury found Ortis guilty of leaking special operational information "without authority" to Phantom Secure CEO Vincent Ramos — who sold encrypted cellphones to organized crime members — and to Salim Henareh and Muhammad Ashraf, two men police suspected of being agents of an international money-laundering network with ties to terrorists.

    He also was found guilty of trying to leak information to Farzam Mehdizadeh. One RCMP witness told Ortis's trial he believes Mehdizadeh worked with "the most important money launderers in the world.

    • To play to your interests: I'm sure Monero has been instrumental in plenty of direct, Israeli money laundering too.
    • And if that's not enough, cryptocurrency broadly is beloved by many venture capitalists and private equity ghouls. It doesn't need evangelism, which only benefits its investors

    Regarding Matrix: it's like you're applying the "One Drop" rule. To address misinfo in two places:

    Amdocs was divested from Israeli private ownership since the 80s, funded by Bell, and headquartered in Missouri for decades before Matrix began development, Matrix's team split off entirely a couple years later, and they're in the UK: they're a descendant of a diaspora company.

  • We all have different priorities, I guess. You might be okay with aiding American money launderers, but draw the line at anything that might have touched Israel.

    (PS: It didn't. Matrixis several degrees of separation from anything Israeli, let alone any government, so you might want to edit that comment.)

  • Lol Monero

    Potentially helpful extra context that makes me extra suspicious when somebody evangelizes it all the time

    Monero users can and have been deanonymized by the police. Monero also acts as a de-facto tumbler, meaning by using it, you’re money laundering for criminals as a matter of course.