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Mozilla as an organization and Firefox displayed their reckless disregard for my privacy. It would be foolish to dismiss it as just a blip.

If Mozilla cared about people trusting them with their privacy then they shouldn't have evicerated that trust by installing an extension (even switched off) behind their back.

They did this with Looking Glass, they did this with Pocket, and they did this with non-free WebRTC support. Three strikes and you're out!



Ok, so are you going to be using Edge or Chrome, and which of those respects your privacy more than Firefox.

No organisation is perfect and you have a right to be angry, but you're being a bit extreme IMO. It's much more nuanced than three strikes and you're out, and it's a shame to reduce it to that level.


What's the non-free WebRTC support? I missed that.


None of those violated your privacy by any reasonable definition. Those three things did not provide any additional information about you to any third party (unless you opted in to using pocket).

WebRTC did violate your fundamental freedoms as defined by the FSF, but that's not a privacy violation.

Please explain how your privacy was actually meaningfully violated.




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