| > Hello That was an experimental, lightweight Skype alternative, that didn't take too much effort to build beyond introducing WebRTC into Gecko (which they had to do anyway) and which probably helped them iron out bugs in Gecko's WebRTC implementation. Also, for the record, when I used it, it worked mostly fine. > Persona It worked, but almost nobody used it (you could argue that that is "not working out" from a social, if not technical point of view). > They also abandoned Thunderbird, which I will never forgive They didn't abandon it. They transferred it into other people's caring hands. They still provide some support for it under the Mozilla umbrella and they still coordinate (to some extent) with Thunderbird's current developers when modifying the common base Firefox and Thunderbird depend on. > Cliqz Partially true, if rather overblown. It affected a tiny number of people (~ 1 % of new users, in only one country), the data was anonymised and the code running on the server to which the data was sent was FOSS, though obviously there's no definitive proof that Cliqz didn't substitute it with malicious code. It was an order of magnitude less bad than what Google always does and considering that the point was to build an alternative to Google search, if it had worked out, it would have been a massive privacy gain. The most disappointing part was it being opt-out, not opt-in, for the randomly selected users. > remotely installing an addon to advertise the Mr. Robot show That was a very silly (and stupid) gimmick, but it didn't invade your privacy. > installing Pocket by default Having Pocket installed by default is not a privacy violation, even if it is slight bloat-ware. |