| >Can someone ELI5 what Mozilla did to deserve this derision? I would say its because Mozilla isn't the incorruptible champion of web browsing. Yes, they have done bad decisions, bad(and good) products have been axed that are unrelated to a browser, and they have being influenced by political issues because, well, people work at Mozilla and people get to be influenced by that. So bad impressions triumph over any campaign they have done, like the ones quoted from the article below. Browsers and the Quest for More Private Advertising - 2009 - Mozilla leads the Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) Working Group at W3C. This
is a signal sent by the browser to websites indicating that the user does not
wish to be tracked online. All major browsers implement DNT. The advertising
industry fails to adopt DNT and the initiative ultimately fails. - 2015 - Firefox launches “Tracking Protection.” This was an important but small
step. It is off by default and blocks ads that track.
2018 - Firefox launches Facebook Container based on several months of
work to isolate first party cookies.96 This is another small step forward
against tracking. - 2019 - Firefox launches with Enhanced Tracking Protection (“ETP”) based
on learnings from earlier efforts alongside an “anti-tracking policy”.97 ETP is a
success, and drives all major browsers except Chrome to implement similar
features. - 2020 - Firefox blocks third-party fingerprinting resources98 and includes pro-
tections against redirect tracking.99 Mozilla leads the formation of the Privacy
Community Group at the W3C.100 - 2021 - Firefox takes on supercookies,101 introduces Total Cookie Protection,102
and trims HTTP Referrers to protect privacy.103 Mozilla leads the formation of
the Privacy Advertising Technology Community Group at the W3C.104 - 2022 - Firefox launches Total Cookie Protection by default105 and adds manual
protections against link decoration.106 Mozilla continues work on Privacy Pre-
serving Advertising107 through both criticism of and collaboration with Google,
Apple, Meta and others. |