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10 sats \ 5 replies \ @nichro 1 Mar \ on: Mozilla won't receive $3.55 million in U.S. federal funding | world is healing tech

What's the spicy TLDR on Firefox/Mozilla? Used to love em but have been out of the loop for like... a decade at this point

221 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 1 Mar

tldr in a diff: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e#diff-a24e74e4595fa85440a2f4e7e5dcfe68aba6e1e593aef05a2d35581a91423847L65

General sentiment is that they are moving to be less privacy protecting based on this and some recent ToS changes.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro 2 Mar

I see... more recent than I thought. Welp.

20 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 2 Mar

I was going to write something but my thoughts were literally, including matching expletives, written already by Peter.

Why the fuck does software I run locally on my machine need a privacy policy? I'm not interacting with Mozilla at all. Same way I'm not interacting with Home Depot when I use a hammer I bought from them to pound in a nail.

The only explanation I have is that in fact, we are interacting with Mozilla. Maybe it's time to do some packet capture and investigate when it calls home.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @rblb OP 2 Mar

The (encrypted) sync feature, pocket and ai chatbot run on mozilla servers, also they do collect statistics if you enable "Firefox Data Collection".

Likely there is some interaction also for extension updates and rtc signaling, maybe more.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 20h

I remember reading somewhere about over 120 calls on startup but I can't seem to find the link 😞