- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
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- privacy@lemmy.ml
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/wei-wpt-other
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/wei-wpt
these showed up after Jul 21 per GitHub “contribution activity” but are retroactively dated to 13 - they were probably private before that.
We may not see that full implementation is already worked on.
What, it was a bad idea to give control of how the Internet is rendered to an ad agency? Who could have seen this coming?
Well obviously it was fine because they had a secret motto not to be evil which is basically impossible to backtrack on.
Wait, what’s that? They backtracked once it was no longer profitable? 😲
Now all we can do is convince as many people as we can to use firefox instead of putting up with this bullshit.
It’s far too late for that, and it won’t work anyway.
Frankly, this is where regulators are supposed to step in. They won’t, but if it were working as it was intended to work, they’d have stepped in long before now.
This will probably be another case of the European Union having to save our (the U.S. and others) collective asses from corporate overreach.
With that mindset, nothing will ever get accomplished. As Louis Rossmann often says: We, the people, are who can change the culture and that’s what matters most.
this is where regulators aew supposed to step in.
EU should come back to the rescue.
The EU isn’t some magical force that only does good for privacy. They had their own fair share of scandals and pretty much all regulations regarding privacy and data collection conveniently omit duties and responsibility for governments and such. They just realized that in an information age information is power. And they want that power for themselves and not some large state-like corporations. Which can be a win for us, sometimes, but it’s not a silver bullet.
This in particular is actually something they might like, because it would allow them to ensure “safe” environment for … whatever they want. With convenient tracking and anything else should they desire so.
It’s the only thing that has a chance of working. Us few Firefox users have no chance of weighing in the balance, we’ll just be cast aside. And the US won’t do anything, as usual.
tbh i think other government bodies should follow UN too, as far as i know they have been the only governing body that voices concern whenever tech companies become too greedy.
Waiting for government to act is a recipe for disaster. Governments react to angry people.
I am under no illusion the challenge we face, but I ain’t going to roll over, I will keep pushing. Give up if you want, but telling everyone to give up and you choose to become a stooge of the oppressors.
You mean the nonprofit company that is dependent completely on a contract with google to stay solvent? Ya, firefox will definitely never be pressured by google… Bruh
@AvailableFill74 @nottheengineer source 🕵🏻♂️❔
“One thing Mozilla does have going for it is a lot of money—more than $1 billion in cash reserves, according to its latest financial statement. The primary source of this capital is Google, which pays Mozilla to be the default search engine on the Firefox home page. Those payments, which started in 2005, have been increasing—up 50% over the past decade, to more than $450 million, even as the total number of Firefox users has plummeted. In 2021 these payments accounted for 83% of Mozilla’s revenue.”
https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-2021-fs-final-1010.pdf
Is that Google’s head of marketing in the photograph?
Well color me surprised.
Gotta love the open source licences (when we have libre licences). At least Google stand as a good example on why open source licences are not a good option in comparison to free ones (we have BSD vs AT&T too as an example).
Where’s the “in secret” part?
You mean because what they proof-of-concepted or drafted privately wasn’t publicly visible 8 days earlier?
I don’t get it.
add to that - just from https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/1051714
https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8f5bd
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