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You can remove the button from the toolbar and disable pocket stuff on the new tab page. What other touchpoints are there that average users should care about and that can only be disabled in about:config?

In what way is Mozilla selling their users to Pocket? Do you realize that Mozilla acquired Pocket years ago?

Anyone else irritated by the "Executive Summary" heading for what I think most would call an abstract? As a non-native speaker I had to look up the term to confirm it meant what I guessed it would mean: summary meant for executives as in a corporation's "executive officers".

Always breaks my heart to see corporate speak creep into normal speak :(

Btw, "Executive Summary" being listed under "Summary" also seems weird. I'd call that a table of contents.

Feeling particularly nitpicky today.

David Guetta makes tons of money just performing live, so "not going to be release commercially" feels like a cop-out... But then again, that's sort of how DJing works anyway. Would he have had to pay some sort of royalties had he just remixed one of Eminem's actual works on stage?

> I'm referring to this: https://twitter.com/bert_hu_bert/status/1561650689474011136

That doesn't seem to say anything about what gets transmitted to or from Google? Certainly it's not your visited URLs.

> And for the record, FF android prioritizes Google searches over history leading to accidentally visiting the Google search for a web page I often frequent.

For search suggestions we send what you've typed, not full URLs. I'm not sure what happens when pasting a URL but I would recommend using Paste & Go in that case. Search suggestions can be disabled too in the app settings.

> It used to do that, but doesn't anymore.

I work for Mozilla (on Firefox) and I was around when phishing protection was introduced. Pretty sure it never did that. Not leaking the user's visit has always been a top priority for us.

> Although it seems they're still doing that for files:

What exactly do you mean by "that"? What you quoted below for certain executable downloaded files never applied to phishing protection, I don't think.

> Firefox also has Safe Browsing

Safe Browsing checks against a local database. It doesn't leak the URLs of pages you visit.

> and Pocket.

Pocket doesn't do that either.

> Pretty sure Firefox does that by default.

Ahem, no.

> It gets highly annoying, sometimes.

The thing you made up gets highly annoying, sometimes?

> These are basically training chopsticks. If you find yourself using them a lot, you'll find it easier and more satisfying to use actual chopsticks. Chopsticks are cheap, easy to clean, versatile, able to be made from materials like bamboo, and more elegant than pincers.

Using chopsticks is also good exercise for your fingers. I suspect that's the main reason why they're so satisfying to use.

> The CPU result is doubly incorrect, since a) it's not an Intel chip, and b) i'm running 12.5.1 instead of 10.15.

It looks like you've enabled resistfingerprinting?

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/eddb810ffd5499f098...

Your comment is legitimate as well, yet you've completely missed the point.

Especially for a _collaborative_ editor, a11y seems like a must. Everyone can pick their own personal editor, but you don't want to shut out your (potential) peers from (potential) collaboration. Without accessibility, such an editor likely wouldn't stand a chance at Mozilla where I work; I certainly would lobby against it.

Annihilating the eco system we life in demonstrates that our intelligence isn't that good, and doesn't seem to showcase it's a powerful force for long-term survival.

> There's a reason 99% of people have non-stick aluminum cookware. Everything else is horrible

Onyx pans are amazing in every way (nonstick, scratchproof, dishwasher safe, induction ready) but not yet sold in the US I think: https://onyxcookware.de/

There are similar ones sold on AliExpress that would presumably ship to the US, e.g.: https://a.aliexpress.com/_mr49PaC

The potential upside of delaying highway construction by a few decades is that you could, in theory, reconsider whether it's still a good idea. Of course that's usually not what's going to happen, and most likely the project will be pushed through anyway when there's hardly any public support left for it, as with Berlin's infamous A100 extension cutting through the city.

> Is the engine really the thing you're worried about though?

Yes. Google is unable to separate their ad business from making a browser engine (as any profit-seeking corporation in the same position would be). So far their power hasn't been absolute, so some of their less nice efforts have failed, but they'll keep trying.

> and chromium based.

That may seem like a plus from a user's perspective when websites were only tested with / optimized for Chrome. From the perspective of someone who's concerned about Google's power as a monopoly, alternative browsers being Chromium-based is just part of the problem. Sure, you can fork Chromium in theory, but making changes that are incompatible with Google's vision is going to be a problem for you. So Google is still going to be in control as long as they ship the browser that dominates all others. Brave don't have the resources to maintain an engine by themselves anyway. Besides Mozilla, only Apple and Microsoft could do it, and Microsoft already gave up.

> I can't do that anymore!

Good. You'll have to think harder to find ways not to overwork your team in the first place.

This attitude towards workers rubs me the wrong way, but your side note saved you in my eyes:

> Working long hours is bad

Yes! Overworking people and then saying "thanks" by exploiting the fact ("using the chance", as you put it) that you locked them into the office isn't exactly fair. If this is what people mean by happy hour, that's absurd. If they chose to stay for social stuff after a normal day of work, that's of course another thing.

> If there is a government monopoly you will not be able to shop around, choose best service and will have to deal with

In a functioning democracy, you'd be able to elect the right people to make sure service is maintained properly and not abused.

> It enables business of all kind of sorts to grow

It also just enables people to communicate and access information. Kinda weird that we need to make a business pitch to show that something is essential. Then again, we're living under capitalism.

In what regard do you think it's not mature enough yet?

> It's so easy to make two boxes, one for the oppressor and the other for the oppressed, and place everyone into those two boxes. If each oppressor works a day in the shoes of the other box, does that make a difference?

You've got a point there. The capitalist will most likely continue to act as a capitalist. The incentives are fundamentally wrong, so moralizing on an individual level won't do much, which brings us back to: blame capitalism.

> Capitalism does not force you to create an immoral business, or to treat your employees (direct and contracted) immorally. It doesn't even really encourage it.

It tends to encourage it by putting those at the top who manage to exploit the most. Capital also begets political power which makes it hard to counter that trend.

> Wanting more and more money regardless of the (human) cost

Congratulations, you've accidentally defined capitalism.

> if Firefox was just a small(ish) browser catering to power users. There's nothing wrong with that

Except that it couldn't work in today's world, as more and more web sites would stop working in Firefox. Firefox needs significant market share to survive with an independent browser engine. Having an independent engine is key to achieving Mozilla's mission: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/

You can build a browser focused on power users if you don't need to worry about the engine. Perhaps you want to take a look at Vivaldi?

> Like almost complete control over what can be sold online. Ever wonder why certain things are difficult to buy via PayPal or other similar systems?

So, why? The article doesn't seem to answer that question. What prevents shops from supporting alternative payment systems?

> The measures introduced to stop the disease kill the young and hence affect the loss of life far more.

Not in other countries. Fix your ridiculous social security system.

A good part of the initial engineering muscle came from Mozilla. Google used to pay people working on Firefox, including the Firefox lead developer Ben Goodger, but pulled them to work on Chrome instead. So they already had a system set up for moving the web forward, but clearly they wanted more than that.

In fact they did contribute to Firefox by paying engineers like Ben Goodger and Seth Spitzer, but clearly they weren't happy with that level of control. Goodger was lead developer for Firefox. They pulled all those people to work on Chrome instead, a step that immediately hurt Mozilla.

> its telemetry to Google

What does this even mean?

What's weird is that you reflect on your emotions, understand that decisions you made are irrational, and still can't see yourself make a different decision going forward. Why did you reflect in the first place? Are you not interested in making rational decisions?