I was waiting for the 2023 forms to drop.
I’m shocked to find out Mitchell Baker has taken a pay cut of ~$600,000, now struggling at a much more relatable $6.2 million instead of $6.9 million
(ETA $600,000 is also her “base” salary, the rest of the $6.2m is her “bonus.” She lost one base salary worth of bonuses last year.)
“Ecosia Chat is powered by OpenAI”
ffs
Whether you prioritize privacy*, climate protection, or simply want a search experience tailored to your preferences, we’ve got you covered.
Ecosia goes beyond data protection by addressing environmental concerns…
Together, Mozilla, Firefox and Ecosia are contributing to a web that is more open and inclusive, but above all — one where you can make an informed choice about what tech you use and why. Your tech choices make a difference.
Someone should tell Mozilla about the AI-sized environmental concern in their browser?
* ETA: Ecosia doesn’t mention privacy as a feature anywhere on its homepage. (I’m not counting the link to its unimpressive privacy policy.) They call themselves “Google, but greener”, and I believe them.
Today is the day Mozilla.social shuts down. Everybody on the instance is saying their goodbyes.
Web: taken back
You’d probably have to write custom JavaScript or find a solution on a per-site basis, because it’s the same loading JavaScript that also performs the unloading.
It looks like GPC spec creates the same sort of tracking signal that DNT did, but it requests less protection: there is specifically a carve-out in GPC that says websites can track you, including for advertising purposes.
GPC is also not intended to limit a first party’s use of personal information within the first-party context (such as a publisher targeting ads to a user on its website based on that user’s previous activity on that same site).
I see the problem: [anything] after the website domain is redirected to profile/[anything]. Imagine running that redirect repeatedly. It will keep on adding “profile” to the beginning. To stop it, you have to make sure the URL after the domain doesn’t start with “profile”, otherwise you’re in danger of a loop.
about:about
Hopefully, this rebrand turns things around, as we need organizations like this to survive. Otherwise, we will be left with the greedy Big Tech ones, who aren’t really concerned with people or their rights.
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Mozilla Boots Staff Yet Again, Advocacy Unit Shut Down
Subtle shade detected.
I always assumed anybody on a Firefox subreddit was cut from a different cloth 😉 Especially because Firefox on the desktop offers first-class bookmark management IMO.
I know I use it a ton, anyway.
You see the Bookmarks menu item without scrolling down in the menu? Most of the time (read: when I’m not on the Home overlay) I need to scroll down to reveal the rest of the menu.
Is this the same menu that makes viewing and adding bookmarks one step more tedious than they used to be?
To add a bookmark:
To view bookmark (from anywhere but the Home overlay):
There’s a Reading List but I’ve never used it.
As long as bookmarks work as a to-do list, why not, right? Especially because you don’t even have to use folders: “todo” as a tag works just as well.
Oh, so it was just empty virtue signaling and hypocrisy? You’re welcome.
“Your instance is anti-West” means that it endorses everything you listed as bad, as long as it’s from a nation that has enough red in its flag.
There’s no time like the present to switch instances.
Do users like the AI integration, or is this just something the management class wanted to see? Right now, those clothes look crazy good on that emperor…
There’s a huge difference between something that is presented in an easily accessible settings menu, and something that requires you to go to an esoteric page, click through a scary warning message, and then search for esoteric settings… Before even installing a server.
Nothing was compelling Mozilla to rush this through. In addition, nobody was asking Mozilla for remote access to AI, AFAIK. Before Mozilla pushed for it, people were praising them for resisting the temptation to follow the flock. They could have waited and provided better defaults.
Or just wedged it into an extension, something they’re currently doing anyway.
There’s the tragedy with this new feature: they fast-tracked this past more popular requests, sticking it into Release Firefox.
But they only rushed the part that connects to third parties. There was also a “localhost” option which was originally alongside the Big Five corporate offerings, but Mozilla ultimately decided to bury that one inside of the about:config settings.
It is a sidebar that sends a query from your browser directly to a server run by a giant corporation like Google or OpenAI, consumes an excessive amount of carbon/water, then sends a response back to you that may or may not be true (because AI is incapable of doing anything but generating what it thinks you want to see).
Not only is it unethical in my opinion, it’s also ridiculously rudimentary…
To wit, the very next sentence sure does seem to say that Ecosia is private.