… Or, in what a previous head of public policy at Mozilla told me while we were chatting before our talks at a data protection conference:

“Aral, we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company, I don’t understand why you’re holding us to a such a higher standard.”

When I finally managed to pick my jaw off the floor the only retort I could manage was: “But that’s not what you tell people.”

3/3

#Mozilla #fediverse #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #BigTech

In early 2023, #Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the #Fediverse at Mozilla.Social.

More info here: blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mo…

Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative

In early 2023, Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social.

^{Steve Teixeira (The Mozilla Blog)}

Welcome to the #Fediverse, @mozilla! Yeah, let’s get moving! 💚🌱

"In early 2023, #Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the #Fediverse at Mozilla.Social. "

"Now is the time, as we’re living through the consequences of 20 years of centralized, corporate-controlled social media, with a small oligopoly of large tech firms tightening their grip on the public square."

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mo…

#moa #TwitterMigration

Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative

In early 2023, Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social.

^{Steve Teixeira (The Mozilla Blog)}

While I might be the only dinosaur still loving and using @thunderbird, I'd like to encourage you to contribute to its development as well if you or your company relies on it:

give.thunderbird.net

#opensource #thunderbird #mozilla

Give to Thunderbird | Give to Thunderbird

I gave to @mozthunderbird today to #freetheinbox. Join me to support communication privacy.

^{Give to Thunderbird}

Thunderbird starts and decides (without asking me) to open a web page in my default browser to beg about donation.

Thunderbird being hypocritical again:
- they're saying donations are what keep them alive yet they just bought out K-9
- they're saying they're "privacy-respecting", yet they open a tracking web page at every start of Thunderbird

The funniest: the links, even in the donate page, contains trackers.

Seriously @thunderbird stop acting like the good guys.

#thunderbird #k9 #mozilla

Need help using Thunderbird? Whether you need tech support or just an answer to a question, here’s how and where to find the help you need from the amazing Thunderbird Community.

🔗 LINKS MENTIONED:
* Thunderbird Support Hub: mzla.link/tbirdhelp
* Thunderbird on Reddit: reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/
* Troubleshoot Mode: support.mozilla.org/kb/trouble…

📥 Download Thunderbird: thunderbird.net
✅ Donate To Thunderbird: give.thunderbird.net
🙋 Thunderbird Support: support.mozilla.org/products/t…
➡️ Thunderbird On Twitter: twitter.com/mozthunderbird
➡️ Thunderbird On Mastodon: mastodon.online/@thunderbird
➡️ Thunderbird On LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/thunderbi…

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Learn how to quickly and easily sort ALL of your Thunderbird folders exactly how YOU want them. Works for email accounts, newsgroup and RSS subscriptions, subfolders, and sub-subfolders!

📥 Download Thunderbird: thunderbird.net
✅ Donate To Thunderbird: give.thunderbird.net
➡️ Thunderbird On Mastodon: mastodon.online/@thunderbird
➡️ Thunderbird On LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/thunderbi…

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"The #Mozilla #Firefox web browser is finally beginning to catch up in a market where every competitor has an online language #translation service feature. Firefox recently debuted its long-awaited #privacy-preserving on-device translation service."

ctrl.blog/entry/firefox-transl…

On-device browser translations with Firefox Translations

Firefox can now do offline and privacy-preserving translation of eight languages with more on the way. Powered by open-source and machine-learning.

^{www.ctrl.blog}

Firefox Kills Another Tracking Cookie Workaround

#News #Firefox #Mozilla #privacy #cookies #infosec #Cybersecurity
theregister.com/2022/06/30/fir…

Firefox kills another tracking cookie workaround

URL query parameters won't work in version 102 of Mozilla's browser

^{Brandon Vigliarolo (The Register)}

So, my first #vivaldi
#web #browser poll has ended. the results are here: mastodon.social/@Unatributed/1…

Unfortunately not a lot of respondents, but the ~60/40 split was enough to get me to install vivaldi.

Unfortuantely I won't be sticking with it. Why? My main reason for installing it was the new mail client, which reminded me of the old #Mozilla and #opera browsers. Alas, the mail client doesn't work the way I need it to, and there are lots of forum posts about problems with it...

Unattributed (@Unatributed@mastodon.social)

Curiosity: Do you use the #vivaldi #browser? Or are you using something else? (Should a I do a multiple choice browser survey?) Please boost so I can get some good data. [ ] Yes [ ] No

^Mastodon

Basically, “are we getting away with it?” (Whatever ‘it’ is now… whatever the catch is this time… to be fair, I’ve stopped caring. Folks seem want to believe what they want to believe and don’t appreciate it much when you point out even the most glaring issues with their darlings.)

#mozilla

Mozilla’s survey for its new Firefox Translations extension.

Exactly the questions folks who are doing nothing dodgy would ask.

#mozilla

This looks cool: #mozilla has released an add-on for #firefox that can do web page #translation *locally* instead of sending data to the cloud.

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/lo…

Based on Project Bergamot and implemented in WebAssembly

browser.mt/

Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot

The translations add-on is now available in the Firefox Add-On store for installation on Firefox Nightly, Beta and in General Release. 

^{Rebecca Smith (The Mozilla Blog)}

Mozilla Introduces Local Machine Translation Tool for Firefox

debugpointnews.com/firefox-mac…

#Linux #OpenSource #Firefox #Mozilla

Mozilla Introduces Local Machine Translation Tool for Firefox

Mozilla introduced an Add-on to help you translate web pages locally without transmitting the data to the cloud or server.

^{arindam (DebugPointNews.com)}

Mozilla’s new Firefox Translations extension is totally offline. Totally. Totally Mozilla offline.

#mozilla #offline #totally #privacy

What would Firefox be if it was private by default?

It would be LibreWolf.

librewolf.net/

#web #browser #privacy #mozilla

LibreWolf Browser

An independent fork of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy, security and user freedom.

^{librewolf.net}

Nice, the #EU gave #Mozilla money to develop an offline, privacy friendly translation engine, and it's been released!

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/lo…

Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot

The translations add-on is now available in the Firefox Add-On store for installation on Firefox Nightly, Beta and in General Release. 

^{Rebecca Smith (The Mozilla Blog)}

Fucking hell, as some of you have pointed out in the comments, also, it’s tied to my router. I have the same router I had in Malmö. If this is not a GDPR violation, I have no idea what is.

So Mozilla – Defender of Privacy™ – is storing my location history, tied to my router, without ever having gotten consent from me to do so.

This is a fucking scandal.

#privacy #location #data #mozilla #surveillanceCapitalism

Recently, there has been misinformation about #Mozilla's browser #Firefox claiming that a new feature called #FirefoxSuggest would send any address bar inputs to advertising companies by default.

This is not true.

In reality, all sponsored suggestions are given offline by default, meaning that no additional user data is sent anywhere. Online suggestions are strictly opt-in.

Please do not spread false information.

🔗 support.mozilla.org/kb/navigat…
🔗 searchfox.org/mozilla-central/…
🔗 bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…