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by greendude29 2623 days ago
I think you need to rethink most of your definitions.

> telemetry

is not tracking. please think about this rather than outrightly dismissing it.

> ADs

Ads are a legitimate way of making money on the Internet. I don't like them, but many services we use online are available because of them. Google is what it is because of Ad revenue. Firefox needs ads, there is no other way of surviving. It is laudable however that they are leading the movement in making ads transparent and building a framework of not having intrusive ads.

> malware

This is laughably innacurate. Mr. Robot was a terrible mistake, but it was not malware. Neither does Moz peddle actual malware.

> MITI

what does that have to with any of the above? Also the EU and many other orgs are thinking about the same thing. The Internet is new and we need to think about controlling the spread of misinformation. I'm going to make the best assumptions about you, so I'm hoping you can see why experiments in that realm can be advantageous.

> DRM

Again, a necessity. You cannot watch most news online without DRM. Supporting DRM is not the same as campaigning for DRM, which brings me to the biggest surprise I found in your comment of all the others...

> I trust Apple more than I trust the Mozilla Foundation or the Mozilla Project

...seriously? Apple? Apple is your privacy company? And you were just complaining about telemetry and pushing updates and DRM. Ugh.

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> ...seriously? Apple? Apple is your privacy company? And you were just complaining about telemetry and pushing updates and DRM. Ugh.

My Original comment:

> At this point, I trust Apple more than I trust the Mozilla Foundation or the Mozilla Project (the bar is quite low for Apple).

Way to take things out of context ;)

> what does that have to with any of the above? Also the EU and many other orgs are thinking about the same thing. The Internet is new and we need to think about controlling the spread of misinformation. I'm going to make the best assumptions about you, so I'm hoping you can see why experiments in that realm can be advantageous.

I guess maybe you should look into the black mirror before you think about censoring others (I guess you are in favor of speech for me and not for thee). You already spread misinformation with the redaction of my original comment.

> DRM >> Again, a necessity. You cannot watch most news online without DRM. Supporting DRM is not the same as campaigning for DRM, which brings me to the biggest surprise I found in your comment of all the others...

More false information being spewed. I have never been prompted to install the DRM plugin on any (mainstream) news site that I've visited. Point me to just one.

"we need to think about controlling the spread of misinformation"

When low information people use subjective words like NEW and NEED it's clear that they are spreading misinformation. So, your comment IS misinformation as the internet doesn't "NEED" to be controlled. If it does, I propose we start by censoring you.