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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 21 Nov 2017

    If Google is Big Tobacco, Mozilla is the doctor that is paid to appear in the tobacco ads. #PrivacyWashing #PR #SurveillanceCapitalism

    2:56 AM - 21 Nov 2017
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      2. Daniël Franke-Carlisle‏ @ainmosni 21 Nov 2017
        Replying to @aral

        As much as I respect your quest for privacy, I still think that your support for Apple kind of contrasts it. Any public company will turn on their customers on a dime when they think they can get away with it or when profits are down.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 21 Nov 2017
        Replying to @ainmosni

        And that’s why the only reason I trust Apple on this is because I trust they will not throw away an absolute competitive advantage over Google, etc.: https://ar.al/notes/apple-vs-google-on-privacy-a-tale-of-absolute-competitive-advantage … Is Apple a long-term solution? No. A good stopgap in the sewer of surveillance we are in? Probably :)

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      2. Desiḵn‏ @desiknr 21 Nov 2017
        Replying to @aral

        Not fair, they are fully open-source and also make Firefox Focus and are planning to block canvas fingerprinting in Firefox 58. If Mozilla Firefox disappears we are all stuck with Google Chrome or Opera.

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      3. Desiḵn‏ @desiknr 21 Nov 2017
        Replying to @desiknr @aral

        Mozilla gets what from Google 300 million? Apple gets 3 billion from Google, there's your privacywashing.

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      4. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 21 Nov 2017
        Replying to @desiknr

        You’re not getting it: you take Google’s $3B away from Apple and Apple is still happily here tomorrow and in ten years. You take Google’s >$300M away from Mozilla and Mozilla is bankrupt tomorrow. That’s what being entirely funded by adtech and #SurveillanceCapitalism means.

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      5. Desiḵn‏ @desiknr 21 Nov 2017
        Replying to @aral

        Mozilla needs the money and they take it from any one who is willing to give it to them, now it's Google, next year can be someone else. Apple doesn't need the money from Google, but why are they taking it year after year?

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      6. Desiḵn‏ @desiknr 21 Nov 2017
        Replying to @desiknr @aral

        They are very transparent about it. If you don't trust their browser install one of their derivatives, like Waterfox, Pale Moon, SeaMonkey, IceCat,.. It's also the only browser besides Edge that doesn't use Blink. We need diversity.

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      1. bells  💚  🇪🇺‏ @bellaswoosh 21 Nov 2017
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        And they're super transparent toohttps://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/making-a-conscious-choice/ …

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      1. bells  💚  🇪🇺‏ @bellaswoosh 21 Nov 2017
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        That's very cruel to an org that truly does care, is nfp and has a huge global grass roots community...

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      1. Johann Savalle‏ @jsavalle 21 Nov 2017
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        I agree it's worrying to see GG&co. sponsoring Mozilla But concretely: 1. Is there any data leaking from FF that we cannot control? 2. Is there a better alternative?

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