This is entirely unacceptable. The Pocket Privacy Policy completely compromises the user's rights and privacies that should be expected when using a Mozilla product, and hiding bugs and feedback from the community is tyrannical and dishonest.
What the hell is going on up at Mozilla HQ? I'm honestly just considering switching over to Midori permanently seeing as how Mozilla's decision-makers don't seem to care about their users or the community. Christ, even the recent announcement made about Pocket really rubs me the wrong way. I mean, seriously? The community agrees that the feature is a bad idea and says that they don't want it and Mozilla's official response is "Actually, yes, you do want it. Everyone wants it and it's okay because the wrapper code is Open Source. :^) Don't worry about their privacy policy or proprietary services, guys. We're just selling you out! It's fine!" Then, they have the gall to disable Sync's Reading List feature so that people will use Pocket instead. Basically, what I see here is that they're removing an already-existing open feature of Firefox that works great to implement proprietary bloatware that's practically impossible to completely get rid of that compromises the user's privacy and goes against everything written in the Mozilla Manifesto. I wouldn't be surprised if the page for the Manifesto got deleted in the coming weeks and an announcement was made along the lines of "Those were old policies. We've changed for the better of our users now. :^) Don't worry! You guys want this!" I am so unbelievably done with whoever is making these decisions. Mozilla is alienating their core userbase, their developers, and their community contributors. Everyone is obviously fed up with the arrival of this feature and they want it to stop, me included. Stop. _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
