- This event seems to tie in with other confusing developments around Mozilla as a company/"Foundation". I do not know enough about these issues to comment on them intelligently. I know only that Mozilla has, inexplicably for a nominal nonprofit, recently bought an advertising firm: https://mastodon.social/@jwz/112650295543215212
and that I have seen… let's say "criticism" of recent changes to the board makeup: https://www.spiceworks.com/tech/tech-general/news/mozilla-cpo-sues-company-over-disability-discrimination/
Anyway, I guess that's a lot of typing. The TLDR is:
- There is now a feature labeled "Privacy-preserving ad measurement" near the bottom of your Firefox Privacy settings. I recommend turning it off, or switching to a more privacy-conscious browser such as Google Chrome.
- I have filed two bugs on Firefox about this, which I am choosing not to link to dissuade brigading. If I have not been banned from the bug tracker by next week I will file another bug about the ChatGPT integration in nightly
@mcc srsly, would the thing to do be to fork Firefox and cut all this shit out?
@simon_brooke @mcc it's essentially impossible to replicate the Mozilla build infrastructure and performance unless you are a major distro. Even Ubuntu have given up and switched to a Mozilla-provided build (via Snap)
@mcc @simon_brooke monthly releases are one thing
@falken @simon_brooke I have been told about two separate groups that purport to have done this in this thread (WaterFox and LibreWolf)