That salary could have been redistributed among the employees Mozilla laid off in the Advocacy division, especially right before they published a report claiming Mozilla needed to be known for advocacy and not Firefox. Or put towards Firefox. Or any combination.
Just removing Mitchell Baker’s bonus would already be the majority of that.
To wit, the very next sentence sure does seem to say that Ecosia is private.
Ecosia goes beyond data protection by addressing environmental concerns.
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.
ᵗᵃᵏᵉ ᵇᵃᶜᵏ ᵗʰᵉ ʷᵉᵇ
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 think the article made a typo that claims GPC is the same as DNT.
When you enable the feature, the GPC sends a signal… This signal is sent via a special HTTP header called DNT: 1 (Do Not Track)
But the GPC spec does say it sends a new signal: Another header (like DNT) and a JavaScript variable the client would set. I don’t see why this couldn’t be used for tracking too.
A user agent MUST generate a Sec-GPC header
So if it generates a header, it can still be used for fingerprinting, but this header is actually less restrictive for what the receiver must do.
DNT was “do not track,” and GPC is "do not sell:
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.
Suggested Read 📖
Mozilla Boots Staff Yet Again, Advocacy Unit Shut Down
Subtle shade detected.
That’s an interesting detail!
I’m not surprised this tagging system is imperfect, but in a broader context – that a company like Google probably has something a hundred times more powerful and more accurate, and it’s scanning through people’s whole photo libraries, really adds to their creepy factor.
Well, was the picture at least taken on a Xiaomi? Or is the AI hallucinating metadata now too
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.
You missed their AI sidebar feature, which only feeds your data to corporations by default. Or their Orbit extension, which ditto. (The latter also points to the Mozilla FakeSpot privacy policy, which is clear about selling your browsing and location data to advertisers. No, I’m not joking. It’s not clear whether Orbit is FakeSpot adjacent…)
Fakespot itself is an AI powered Mozilla subsidiary that has a history dabbling with NFTs.
Mozilla has even dumped money into Hugging Face (a company that’s been given hundreds of millions from other corpos like Salesforce and Nvidia).