Mozilla:
- deliberately created telemetry
- enabled it by default
- created "features" imprisoning the user in their network
- made privacy an impossible task
- disrespect the effort put in the bug reports
- obviously don't care about fixing documentation
- partnered with Google
- relay the matter to some "governance" mailing list
- hosted the archive of that list in a site which says:
"To use Google Groups Discussions, please enable JavaScript in your browser
settings, and then refresh this page."
If anyone is interested in going that way - that's not me.
Even if by some miracle the suggested strategy succeeds - I still won't use
Firefox or any Mozilla product, regardless if there is some combination of
settings giving zero-packet privacy. Just like I will ever use "fixed"
Ubuntu. Perhaps developers should also withdraw from forking that code
because the issue obviously propagates in the forks.
Mozilla deserves to be exposed, so that people stop using their products. To
my mind this is the only strategy. Trying to gain some small piece of privacy
at their mercy is a desperate short term measure. They will keep doing worse
things and become stronger and more arrogant in that. Just like all the other
tech giants who create "useful, safe and easy to use" gimmicks.
So far I have shared the issues:
- here
- in openSUSE forums
- in a bug report at openSUSE asking that Novell should either support the
privacy concerns or remove Firefox from the distro
- in bug reports to the forks
- to RMS (as mentioned)
Perhaps it is time for someone to take it from here as this has already taken
too much of my time and I have no other venues.
