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If you still use Firefox after alll that has happened lately, I can't help you.
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A massive security issue caused by a restrictive DRM failing in a way that leaves vast tracts of people vulnerable to which they claim the only way to fix it is to use a massive backdoor which requires privacy-invading telemetry to be enabled.
Frankly, I think Mozilla thinks their users are stupid.
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Don't use Firefox if you value the continued operation of your browser, your privacy, and your security. That's the lesson to take from that.
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@camoceltic Moreover they pushed the patch via Normandy, a secret ish backdoor system which allows remote code execution on the browser without user knowledge or consent.
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@maiyannah @camoceltic Mozilla is such a rabbit hole.
"Shield is a Firefox user testing platform for proposed, new and existing features and ideas. Broad Applications The Shield system addon targets specific subsets of users, enables features and messaging, and measures the results of those interventions to evaluate the effect of the features/messages on measures (retention, uptake, performance, crashiness) to create insights for the Firefox product and Mozilla as an organization."
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@maiyannah @camoceltic Going down the rabbit hole of "pref flips" leads to a place of creepyness. A lot of what Mozilla does is in the "hidden in plain sight" category.
"What percentage of users do you want in each branch?"
This looks like deliberate manipulation of user behavior with discussions of the legality of what they're doing and "risk matrix" but with whoever is on the team "signing off". The language is often not easy to interpret though, due to jargon.
Whenever I read these Mozilla threads I always come away from it feeling like I've emerged from some disturbing nightmare. It's the cynical way in which they talk about users.