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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral Aug 31

    #Mozilla are surveillance capitalists and hypocrites. https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/08/30/changing-our-approach-to-anti-tracking/ … Shamed into it yet again by Safari, DuckDuckGo & Gnome Web (just the ones I know that implemented it first) & continuing to get $100,000,000s from Google, the world’s largest surveillance capitalist.

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      2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Aug 31

        How much money have you taken so far from Google/Alphabet, Inc., @Mozilla? It’s definitely over a billion dollars based on historic records but the financial details of your latest deal are not public yet to my knowledge. Care to enlighten us?

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Aug 31

        Oh, and I’m dying to know how your latest “experiment” ties into your “changing approach to anti-tracking”. You know, the one where you share people’s browsing history with a third party to give them a “personalised feed of quality content.” https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/advance … #hypocrites

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      1. Random Firefox User‏ @RandomFFUser Aug 31
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        So because they take money from G, they are not allowed to block trackers? I fail to see the logic in that. Just imagine for a second a world without Mozilla. The Internet would be a lot more user-hostile if Mozilla would have relied only on donations.

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      2. Jeremiah Lee‏ @JeremiahLee Aug 31
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        Facts matter. Mozilla added a Tracking Protection feature to Firefox 42 in November 2015, long before Safari and DuckDuckGo. This announcement is an evolution of that feature and will be more aggressive than Safari's.

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      3. John Wilander‏ @johnwilander Aug 31
        Replying to @JeremiahLee @aral

        Some additional facts: 1) Safari has blocked 3rd-parties from setting cookies since 2003. 2) Safari invented private browsing mode in 2005. 3) Safari started double-keying HTML5 Storage and http caches in 2013.

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      4. Jeremiah Lee‏ @JeremiahLee Aug 31
        Replying to @johnwilander @aral

        My point is that Firefox was not "shamed into" tracker blocking, not that Safari isn't doing great work too.

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      1. Farhan Yusufzai‏ @FarhanYusufzai Sep 2
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        How is this bad? This sounds great.

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