Tos copy updates (fix #16016) (#16018) · mozilla/bedrock@d459add
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* ToS copy updates (fix #16016) * Apply suggestions from code review - copy change Co-authored-by: maureenlholland <[email protected]> --------- Co-authored-by: maureenlholland <...

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/26136291

Mozilla has just deleted the following:

“Does Firefox sell your personal data?”

“Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. "

Source: Lundke journal.

  • Metz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    84·
    7 hours ago

    https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e#commitcomment-153120154

    Time & time again people can’t comprehend that companies need revenue to survive, especially for Mozilla’s sake, their > transparency has only harmed them by letting ignorant people see things like this & blindly make assumptions.

    The team behind Mozilla is insanely under paid & under appreciated, please keep up the amazing work. ❤

    I agree with this. Developers need to eat and pay rent too.

    Reading shit like “fuck Mozilla” and “Mozilla is dead” pisses me off extremely. That is just ignorant.

    • golli@lemm.ee
      12·
      6 hours ago

      I don’t think many people criticise the developers salaries, but that of the management. The CEO’s has multiplied by an order of magnitude while market share has plumeted. From my cursory search it went from ~$500k/y in 2009 to slightly over $1m/y in 2016 after which it sharply increased, today it’s over $5m/y. Market share went from 30% to single digit, so it can’t be performance based compensation.

      And then there’s the question on priotisation and scope expansion, which also determines how much money the need.

      Reading shit like “fuck Mozilla” and “Mozilla is dead” pisses me off extremely. That is just ignorant.

      Sure aren’t constructive, but you’ll always have those on the internet so i’d say the default should be to just mentally filter them out. However that doesn’t mean that there aren’t actual reasons to criticise Mozilla.

    • genuineparts@infosec.pub
      102·
      6 hours ago

      While the point is valid that the devs need to eat and sleep and need to get paid, Mozilla is investing money into stupid shit like AI and starting to sell the userdata after they said that they would never do is the main issue here. I guess you would be pissed if your Wife cheats on you after she told you at the altar she wouldn’t?

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        thier obsession with AI(tech in general) hasnt generated useful profit for those companies.

      • nickiwest@lemmy.world
        42·
        6 hours ago

        I guess if your wife needs revenue to survive, you can’t argue with how she earns it. At least, that appears to be the point they’re trying to make.

        • Robust Mirror
          6·
          6 hours ago

          If my wife became a prostitute without us discussing and agreeing to it together because we were having money trouble I absolutely would have a problem with it. Same the other way around. There’s no way this would be an uncommon opinion.