reciprocity

Google already makes money hand over fist. I am not sure if what you posit holds water.

It should be noted that once the Network effect [0] takes place, it becomes less about freedom to build your own software and more about the cost (including - maybe especially - intangible) and viability of doing so.

If the problem is "this user is unsatisfied with this product', the solution is not necessarily to tell them to build their own [1]. We, as people, are allowed to criticize (hopefully constructively) products that have flaws in them even while using said software.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

I suspect more detail regarding your setup would prove to be useful for context as neither one of your bullets point towards an issue with Firefox directly.

Just wanted to mention that any limitation in listening to a track is set by the artist, not Bandcamp. With an artist profile, you can set the number of times people can listen/stream your music before being prompted to buy (I have such a profile).

I went with Tutanota.com which on top of active development also communicates regularly with its users on what features are being worked on. Plus they allow you to have/create a bunch of different email addresses under the same mailbox.

This is a truly excellent link and one that should be shared as widely as possible on this topic. I read his entire comment and came away much more confident in my understanding of what the EU really is and how it works. Thanks for sharing.

Their response to the request for end to end encryption was a non-response. They've stated that they believe in security but it doesn't get any more substantive than that.

In addition to this, they've also locked the ability for users to vote for this feature so even if you do sign in, you can't vote for end to end encryption to be implemented.

You didn't know Firefox supported extensions? Chrome still doesn't support extensions on mobile.

Outstanding.

Please put more substance in your comments.

It's not a bad question to ask. Structural engineering as a profession has also existed much, much longer than software development and with that comes new lessons of doing things better - perhaps at the expense of forgetting some of those problems have already been solved elsewhere.

It's as if our industry has this undercurrent of desire to reinvent the wheel instead of learning from what history is so good at teaching (providing context). No idea how on the mark I am about this.

Please put more substance in your comments.

I think you may have misread that comment. Op didn't imply anything of the sort.

Privacy is not foolish or selfish, and despite the ongoing momentum in decreasing levels of personal privacy, is an extremely precious and valued human desire and resource.

Please consider spending some time to write a comment here or a blog post on this experience! I would be very interested to read it.

I appreciate you taking the time to share your story!

I do not understand the philosophy behind your comment. I think there's a lot of things unsaid in such a deceptively simple three sentence post and I'm not sure if I'd even like to ask you to elaborate to ascertain what lies behind your thinking. However in the spirit of open discussion: why?