Steve Teixeira (@stevetex@mastodon.social)
mastodon.social
With just a few days’ notice, Mozilla terminated my employment this month after leaving me hanging on leave without explanation for several months. My discrimination case against them therefore enters a new phase after this wrongful termination. https://mastodon.social/@stevetex/112780506720122370

sigh

  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    No no, guys Mozilla are the good guys. They never did something nasty like bundling tons of spyware and 3rd party calls with Firefox nor adding unique IDs to every installation. Mozilla also acquired an ad analytics company recently for some reason.

    • irreticent@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      adding unique IDs to every installation.

      I wasn’t familiar with that so I did a quick search. For anyone else interested here is some info about it:

      “Internet users who download the Firefox web browser from the official Mozilla website get a unique identifier attached to the installer that is submitted to Mozilla on install and first run.”

      […]

      “Firefox users who prefer to download the browser without the unique identifier may do so in the following two ways:”

      1. Download the Firefox installer from Mozilla’s HTTPS repository (formerly the FTP repository).

      2. Download Firefox from third-party download sites that host the installer, e.g., from Softonic.

      “The downloaded installers do not have the unique identifier, as they are identical whenever they are downloaded.”

      In the comments section someone says:

      “It seems that getting Firefox from GNU/Linux repos (Debian, etc.), doesn’t come with unique IDs.”

      • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Nothing, not everyone liked it, the only difference is that my comment would result in a shit show of downvotes last week while not people are starting to realize what Mozilla/Firefox really is. Mozilla was never the “all savior” pained them to be and it only took Wireshark and a couple of minutes to see it.