[screamingninja]

> Mozilla is starting to seriously have a long list of highly questionable if not directly user hostile behaviors.

Would you care to provide examples? I am a longtime user of Mozilla products unfamiliar with the topic and I am genuinely curious.

> What should we think of their VPN they try to promote so much

Mozilla does not have its own service but rather resells Mullvad, one of the most privacy focused services in existence. Is there more to this story that I am unaware of?

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Allow me to add this to the other sibling comments: Pocket was an... interesting series of choices.

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Mozilla replaced a feature that was end to end encrypted with one that sent private data to a third party for data mining. They denied getting paid for the integration. That was technically true. They eventually admitted they got paid for referrals. They bought the company in 2017 and promised to release the source code. They still haven't. The Pocket website says "as a member of the Firefox family, privacy is paramount."[1] The first part is misleading and the second part is simply false.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24121973

[astiela]

Open Sourcing something is never a easy task especially if it calls for a complete rewrite which i assume is why it still has not been open sourced yet

[digging]

Really? I'm genuinely unaware, what would make it difficult? In what situations would it require a rewrite?

[loa_in_]

Buying a technology company, they buy a proven idea. If the bought tech has a diffrent stack than everything else Mozilla already had then rewriting it is going to be a good long term idea.

[eviks]

User hostile: restricting browser customization