So how do I search at all, you may ask? I use, which generates revenue by completely divorcing your current search from any identifying information such as IP address and browser fingerprint, and uses those keywords alone to generate ad links. So really, it’s Firefox with a different pelt. Google is no longer allowed anywhere near my devices and my life. Second, this clause in their privacy policy shows they are still sending every single file you download through Google’s wringer, and they make it sound ominous and scary if you opt out. Opting out prevents Firefox from warning you of potentially illegitimate or malicious websites or downloaded files.įirst, they should consider replacing “Firefox” with “Waterfox” to avoid confusion. Learn more or read Google’s Privacy Policy. Webpage and technical data to Google’s SafeBrowsing service: To help protect you from malicious downloads, Firefox sends basic information about unrecognized downloads to Google’s SafeBrowsing Service, including the filename and the URL it was downloaded from. While this is a noble cause, it’s still running my searches through a search engine that generates revenue based on mining my search data, tying it to my identity, and logging visited links. Waterfox is partners with Ecosia, a search engine that plants trees with its generated revenues. Besides being Firefox-based and therefore ultimately subject to Mozilla’s upstream decisions, there are a few things about it that bug me. The worst part: Apparently, they weren’t paid for this it was solely a PR cooperation thing. What does everyone here think? If mozilla came out and said “we can ditch the advertisers, but it means users would have to pay a recurring donation of $x.xx”, then how many users would actually do it? Does the donation business model work without major cutbacks? I had a discussion about this recently with Morgan, and he was bothered that mozilla wasn’t being more upfront about it’s motivations for doing these things. I don’t like that they are messing with FF like this, but I can see why they are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Mozilla has millions of users, however they’re not valuable to advertisers unless mozilla can direct traffic to them, which is why they’ve been resetting user preferences and adding new ways to capture users’ attention in the browser. For better or worse, advertisers (including google) make up most of mozilla’s revenue stream. Nah, mozilla is doing this because it needs money, it’s that simple. we can move all her stuff back in and then everything will be easy for my room from there.Do we know if anyone from Google found their way to Mozilla management?Ĭould be another “Stephen Elop at Nokia” situation. HOPEFULLY her carpet will get all done beginning june. the pods still full, so i cant move anything out and basically my room renovation really hasint started at all. Now we're stuck waiting for the carpet to arrive to their werehouse in maybe 1-2 weeks, then setting a install date. (she needs it far more after her wall edge rotted out at the bottom, flooding her old carpet and molding. we made it just in time before returning to work on getting the room measured and carpet ordered. so me and mom had to move the furniture ourselfs, skip sanding stuff and just get to painting. all fell through (one understandebly couldint after a brown recluse bite). the friends we got on board to help move all our heavy furniture. but our storage pod got full on just her stuff and barely any of mine. me and my mom, to save money, tried to do ours at the same time. The other reason was i aim to renovate my room and install a new floor to replace a damaged one. which is now far more stable with a new team and set flow. luckily a coworker helped us find a new car within the week. cant afford, its basically a money sink with every warning light on since we got it a year ago. this leaves caretaker in limbo for even longer till i have no freakin clue when.Īnd then our car broke down, its the transmission. i really really dont like drawing on it in a curved shrimp pose or arching back becuase its awkwardly far/ high due to the arm extensions to even reach the damned thing. i was really hoping to get my new L desk in becuase my current drawing tablet set up is a nightmare for my back. So no room renovation for me at this point. them trying to find a clean up/ contractors, but with no luck. no body was harmed, pets all good, rest of the house is fine. all that renovating was ruined in a day, but at least most her stuff was in storage. untill her room LITERALLY WENT UP IN FLAMES from a fucking electrical fire. FINALLY after a month longer we started getting my moms stuff out of storage so i can use it and do my room.
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