Okay so, can we just focus on this topic? The Firefox Thingy.
Anyway, I want to make some points regarding the whole firefox thingy situation that I want to add my two cents into this conversation.
- Firefox has always collected your personal data and has always been that way. Because of people not turning on a feature that collects data, which was 3% (This was from a random person on Youtube Comments from firefox videos situation). Which the update became opt-out (Which means that it was gonna be on by default) instead of opt-in (Which means that you can simply turn it off or on, if you want to participate in it). There is also a on-going telemetry thingy in the background that is going on right now.
- FireFox was never a Privacy Respecting in the first place after 2014 or somewhere in some other timeline since their Privacy Policy, and their new terms of service which caused a lot of trust issues to the point of abandonment and finding a new solution such as a Chromium Based browser such as Ungoogled Chromium or Brave, or a Gecko based browser based on Firefox such as Zen or Floorp, or even Mullvad and LibreWolf. However, sometimes these browsers have the same, little to moderate spyware coming from Mozilla FireFox. Not to mention that they are now a AI Focused Company as we speak.
- The political problems is actually another big issue we gonna need to address here, most of us want to stay apolitical and that’s okay, that’s why I also want to stay apolitical even though I am active in politics, which I would rather keep that rant to myself. FireFox or even Mozilla are Woke, which is a term for the awareness of “unjustice” or “social justice” or something like that. Which they spend that money on something useless, such as social justice or DEI in general. Lunduke demonstrated it very well on this topic. Which they claim they are spyware while also being politically woke and spreading their ideologies or “ideologists” to projects that somehow corrupted them.
- Debian, Linux Mint, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and others have a so-called “Mozilla Sponsorship”, which is what Linux Mint did, which resulted being a monetary deal. Which can be seen in their blog posts when you look up “Mozilla”. What does that mean? That means that they could have the same ideologies as Mozilla has and if they were to stop shipping spyware “FireFox” (Not to mention Thunderbird is also affected by this spyware) or just do something about it, then they just comrades who just simply turn against them or just leave the bandwagon.
Original Sources: digdeeper[.]neocities[.]org[/]articles[/]mozilla[.]xhtml, spyware[.]neocities[.]org[/]articles[/]thunderbird, spyware[.]neocities[.]org[/]articles[/]firefox, web[.]archive[.]org[/web/]20240816175531[/https://]privacy[.]awiki[.]org[/]
And for that, these sources should prove me right for this, as I have noticed this discussion and I thought it was interesting while reading through this discussion.
Edit: Also about the whole Brave thing, yeah, they are also shady but I wouldn’t say I wouldn’t trust them, since they have improved over the years but what really bugged me out on this is the fact that they are also spyware: spyware[.]neocities[.]org[/]articles[/]brave