On: Mozilla’s Uncertain Future

[bmcn2020]

I'm not sure. I think advocacy is a core part of its USP -- Mozilla is privacy-friendly, and that's an important point, especially as all internet users, even average consumers, are being constantly hit over the head by how data-hungry these huge corporations are.

It's an uphill battle, sure, and there are a lot of things to overcome, but I'm not so sure I'd blame the leadership on this entirely.

I'd blame the market...for now.

[zajio1am → bmcn2020]

Mozilla has so many privacy issues so that calling it privacy-friendly is misleading:

https://brmlab.cz/project/spyzilla

[pornel → zajio1am]

Mozilla is doomed when it's held to such an impossible standard (such as being "spyzilla" for supporting TLS PKI).

All this poo-pooing on Mozilla doing anything less than paranoid-extreme makes people leave for other browsers, which aren't any better, and often are way worse for privacy.

[zajio1am → pornel]

> Mozilla is doomed when it's held to such an impossible standard (such as being "spyzilla" for supporting TLS PKI).

While some of these points are a bit extreme, most of them are pretty basic and could be avoided by simple maxim:

Don't call home and do not do communication with third parties unless opt-in or explicitly requested by user.

> All this poo-pooing on Mozilla doing anything less than paranoid-extreme makes people leave for other browsers

Well, i still use Firefox as lesser of two evils, but i do not see why i should say to everyone how wonderful it is.

[zajio1am → pornel]

> which aren't any better, and often are way worse for privacy.

BTW, is there any neutral comparison of Firefox vs Chromium w.r.t. privacy?

[sp332 → zajio1am]

I'm flagging this comment because some of the advice in the link makes the browser much less secure. Don't disable OCSP checking!