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cursee165957y@linuxxx I know you are FF fan. Might wanna be careful with their experimental features if you are using.
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agaskins5897yman... I like mr robot okay and all, but this is ridiculous... kind of unforgivable even. What's your browser of choice? I use chromium out of habit and years of syncing the bookmarks with it, but I certainly don't trust it anymore than firefox and always tell myself I'm going to find an alternative and set up my own bookmark sync service
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cursee165957y@agaskins used to be chrome user and then switched to FF. Now I don't even know what to use. 😔
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cursee165957y@Bitwise I am not a very privacy concern person. But I just found this whole "marketing campaign" as an ironic moronic result. They could have done something better.
Like how Spotify and Stranger Things worked together. -
This really failed campaign aside, they force remote plugin installation even with it specifically deactivated an update before? thats real bad.
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cursee165957y@JoshBent yes. From the article and reddit comments that's what I understood as well. 😓
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@CurseMeSlowly wonder how long until that will get abused not by mozilla itself too.
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brod99257yFirefox is trash, Mr.Robot is trash.. only thing that’s changed is they’re being trash together..
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sSam14837yCan someone link something with chromium doing something similar?
I just want to see if they have done something as shitty. -
cursee165957y@sSam I was joking. Hahaha. Chromium won't have such stunt because it is not a commercial product like Firefox or chrome and majority of browser users are not using it. If business and marketing people are not interested in a thing, it is safe to say that thing is free from any kind of scam.
But as a Google based product, they did have this kind of issue in past
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Unless there's solid, *easy to understand/read* proof, I'm going to keep back at trusting a random source on the internet.
Next to that, I've read around a little and the part of pocket that runs within Firefox is open sourced under the GPL2 license. -
This is so fucking stupid. Mozilla need to apologise and fire the morons who keep coming up with these ideas.
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@Condor Hmm it's bad, I see now.
I'll keep using it since I believe that this was the work of some individuals and I think that Mozilla on itself wouldn't be a fan of those methods but I hope those persons get fired indeed. -
Worrying. I love Firefox, and get that they need funding to operate at their scale... but do it with full transparency, giving users choice.
Icecat tends to be a good alternative if you want to browse safely (@linuxxx).
It runs behind on features, receives extra security patches from the debian team, all extra addons and non free stuff is removed, and contains some extra security features. -
@retnikt "- Opening the addons window reverts configuration changes which disable experiments"
lol what, it keeps getting worse.
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Arrrr not you too Firefox 😶 and Mr Robot . ... Wtf is wrong with both parties marketing team. If this is not irony, wtf is.
https://sircmpwn.github.io/2017/12/...
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