@tchambers @Vivaldi ... and I guess that with their current attitude, it's pointless to suggest the same to #Mozilla?
@tchambers @Vivaldi ... and I guess that with their current attitude, it's pointless to suggest the same to #Mozilla?
We are not lawyers, nor our alter egos play as such on the Internet. Ergo in the face of legal challenges we are only rusticos.
If you feel ad idem and want to lend a hand, or head, to #FDroid pro bono and bona fide, you can help in our ongoing efforts ad infinitum.
Quaeritur right here: https://f-droid.org/2025/04/16/strengthening-foss-legal-resilience.html
Firefox 137.0.2 Is a Big Bug Fix and Security Update Release, by (not found on Mastodon or Bluesky):
https://www.ghacks.net/2025/04/15/firefox-137-0-2-is-a-big-bug-fix-and-security-update/
Thunderbird for iOS: Mozilla gets started with development
Mozilla's open source mail app will soon land on iPhones. But the company is in no hurry.
Thunderbird für iOS: Mozilla legt mit der Entwicklung los
Mozillas Open-Source-Mail-App landet bald auf iPhones. Das Unternehmen hat aber keine Eile.
Lately I've been wondering how I could contribute to open source projects despite not being a programmer and not having money for donations, and then I found out about #localisation. For the past couple of days I've been doing some translations for #mozilla projects, mainly #thunderbird, and having my strings aproved has been really satisfying. I love how intuitive Mozilla's localisation interface is.
I’m gonna say it louder for the folks in the back: Mozilla is not what you think it is. Mozilla is not what they say they are. Mozilla is just another for-profit Silicon Valley tech company that has a not-for-profit doing its PR.
#mozilla #BigTech #SiliconValley #bullshit https://eupolicy.social/@ilumium/114306918813909843
Strong point by #Schibsted: we tried to move away from #Google #Ads when #GDPR came into force but lost so much money we had to go back.
And that's where the event ends. Lots to think about, not very convinced about what #Mozilla is doing.
Glad to see #Rob from #FPF brings up #Kobler's #contextualads solution as a viable alternative to #RTB and #SurveillanceAdvertising.
Also makes a super important point about mandatory #DoNotTrack signals in browsers.
IMO this is what #Mozilla should be working towards, not making #Firefox as a data collection platform.
What a weird world in which the #publisher champions #GDPR because #privacy and #Mozilla says it's harmful
#Schibsted also celebrates the #DigitalMarketsAct for reining in #Meta's #gatekeeper power.
Other interesting point: they'd like #cookies under the #GDPR instead of #ePrivacy combined with a timid acknowledgement that publishers are forced to participate in a system (of #programmatic #advertising) they cannot control.
Wow so the #Mozilla engineer disagrees and claims "#GDPR has done a great deal of harm" (I didn't understand his argument why) but now diverted to saying the #browser should be the platform collect all the personal data and then provide it in aggregated form to advertisers.
This would "give control to people while also unlocking the data".
And all in a sudden, #SurveillanceAdvertising is not a #humanrights issue any more but merely a question of "governance".
Stop legitimising Mozilla.
They’re sucking all the oxygen out of the room.
“We’re just another Silicon Valley tech company.” – their then head of public policy to me
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” – Maya Angelou
(Or in this case the second, third, fourth… what are we on? I’ve lost count.)
#mozilla #BigTech #SiliconValley #bullshit https://eupolicy.social/@ilumium/114306753465182268
At a #Mozilla event in #Brussels this morning about "#privacy-first online #advertising". I am _very_ curious where this weirdest of things Mozilla does is going.
Speakers: Petra Wikström, policy person at #Schibsted, @rvaneijk, @eff's Svea Windwehr and Mozilla's own Martin Thompson.
@ryanleesipes can you raise a serious proposal with the board towards changing the legal name, even something simple like Thunderbird Technologies, like whatever.
Once Mozilla and Firefox were an asset to be associated with, I fear that Firefox and Mozilla are both very much tanking in 2025 with their decision to start selling out on user data.
I’ve always loved Firefox and been a strong advocate but the recent changes cut deep, we all know too well the odor that enshitification gives off when companies start to sell out on their users.
#Firefox handelt: Schluss mit der Verwirrung um Add-on-Datenerhebung | iX Magazin https://www.heise.de/news/Firefox-handelt-Schluss-mit-der-Verwirrung-um-Add-on-Datenerhebung-10343054.html #FirefoxAddon #Mozilla #MozillaFirefox #Browser #Webbrowser #Datenschutz #privacy
#Mozilla changed https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/raw-file/default/security/nss/lib/ckfw/builtins/certdata.txt to use 302 redirect:
< HTTP/2 302
< content-type: text/html
< date: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 08:13:36 GMT
< location: https://hg-edge.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/raw-file/default/security/nss/lib/ckfw/builtins/certdata.txt
< access-control-allow-origin: *
< content-length: 0
This could lead to some failure to update the certificate data with tools that don't handle redirect correctly. These tools will fail to fetch the new certdata.txt now.
Firefox nightly introduces an experimental feature that shows an AI summary for web link previews https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/firefox-nightly-introduces-experimental-link-previews-with-ai-summary