• bizarroland
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    6911 days ago

    I am very averse to companies breaking my trust.

    Mozilla can win it back by explicitly stating what they are collecting, why they are collecting it, and making opt out the default.

    • Optional
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      1911 days ago

      Yeah they’re not going to do that until a few people leave the company. And they have no plans to leave.

      • bizarroland
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        1011 days ago

        And that’s fine, I’ll just use different browsers until they change their stance.

        • @sinceasdf@lemmy.world
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          18 days ago

          That’s very optimistic. Mozilla is not in good shape and the c suite may simply ride their paychecks from the endowment off into the sunset.

          • bizarroland
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            18 days ago

            What’s optimistic about telling a multi-million dollar company that if they don’t operate with principles that I agree with that they won’t get my business?

            • @sinceasdf@lemmy.world
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              8 days ago

              Mozilla is run by a nonprofit and just lost 80% of its revenue from the Google ad antitrust case. How is your using their browser making them any money? That’s literally the rub here. The whole promise of Firefox is that they don’t data mine your activities like chromium browsers do and data mining and ads would be the way to make revenue anywhere near on par with what was lost. The CEO gets paid the same either way out of the billion or so that Mozilla has in financial reserve. Firefox keeps losing user base yet the CEO pay keeps going up.

        • @Empricorn@feddit.nl
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          910 days ago

          Okay, but when this is discussed “making opt out the default” means you are signed up and have to opt out if you don’t want to be signed up.