Trying to delete my #Firefox account via https://accounts.firefox.com gives me this. Appeared the first time i tried, re-appeared after a 15 min. wait and still appears an hour later. Any hints would be greatly appreciated. #mozilla #gdpr #dsgvo
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
Jan Penfrat (@ilumium@eupolicy.social)EUpolicy.social - A Mastodon server for the EU bubble
#Firefox users: Have you tried #ZenBrowser zen-browser.app/
Feel free to share this poll for reach. Share your thoughts in the comments.
#internetbrowser #privacy #mozilla
Zen Browserzen-browser.app
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Jan Penfrat (@ilumium@eupolicy.social)EUpolicy.social - A Mastodon server for the EU bubble
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.
#onlineads #SurveillanceAdvertising #TrackingFreeAds #gdpr #dataprotection
#Thunderbird is asking for donation. I would give them $$$ if:
- Thunderbird would be developed out of #Mozilla as all trust in that organization has been lost forever.
- There would be legally binding guarantees that #Thunderbird would never get any #AI unless the user separately installed it.
@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.
@ryanleesipes and AFAIK #Mozilla only has the #Trademark for #Thunderbird and @thunderbird is being granted useage for no fee...
Personally I wish Mozilla would also release #Firefox if not come to an arrangement where @torproject / #TorBrowser becomes the new #Upstream instead.
After all, that"s certainly better re: #privacy and way better than "yet another #Chromium fork" like #BraveBrowser ...
#browser market share 2024/25:
This is serious! #chrome is taking over the internet like #microsoft did the same about 30 years ago with the Internet Explorer.
Thanks to the world wide success of the #apple #iphone and #ipad the #safari browser comes second. The rest is dust. Including #mozilla #firefox.
With #google Chrome winning the browser race they can dictate web techlologies. Keep in mind, that Google is an advertising company in the first place ...
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share?ref=ghost.iconscout.com
Browser Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global StatsStatCounter Global Stats
This new Firefox feature, can provide an AI summary of unvisited links on demand. It's worth noting that unlike Mozilla's Orbit add-on, this runs completely client side, requiring no server communication for it's AI wizardry.
Enable the feature, then Shift+Alt and hover over a link, and a pop-up/tooltip will appear, and generate a brief bullet-point summary of what's beyond the link.
Try Firefox's Experimental Link Previews with AI SummaryOMG! Ubuntu
Sigo sin entender como es posible que cualquier cutre-navegador Android integre un sistema de traducción implecable, y por contra @firefox de escritorio sea incapaz de ello. Muchísima pena la verdad...
#firefox #translate #mozilla
#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
Try Firefox's Experimental Link Previews with AI SummaryOMG! Ubuntu
