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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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    1. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 21 Nov 2017

      Aral Balkan Retweeted Philipp Sackl

      1. Why did you make Google your default search engine & use Google Analytics in Firefox if you care about protecting people from trackers (Google is the largest #adtech company/tracker/surveillance capitalism on the web)? 2. How much money are you making from Google for this?https://twitter.com/phlsa/status/932654707860008960 …

      Aral Balkan added,

      Philipp Sackl @phlsa
      Firefox loads pages twice as fast in Private Browsing Mode, because it blocks trackers. Want that speed boost at all times? Enable Tracking Protection in Firefox Settings. #FirefoxQuantum #Performance #Tracking https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/20/firefox-private-browsing-vs-chrome-incognito/ … pic.twitter.com/5ji4B6kx2Z
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    2. Steve Song‏ @stevesong 22 Nov 2017
      Replying to @aral

      Apparently not very much. https://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-maker-mozilla-we-dont-need-googles-money-anymore/ … AFAIK default search engine in Firefox now varies from country to country based on deals with a variety of search engines... e.g. Yandex in Russia, etc

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    3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 22 Nov 2017
      Replying to @stevesong

      That was before the current deal and only because they were being funded by other adtech. (Yahoo was giving them ~just under $400M/year.) All their funding comes from adtech companies and is obtained by tracking and profiling people.

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    4. Steve Song‏ @stevesong 22 Nov 2017
      Replying to @aral

      Paying to be the default search engine may indeed be problematic from a net neutrality point of view although Mozilla's revenue pales in comparison to what Google are paying your favourite companyhttps://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/14/google-paying-apple-3-billion-to-remain-default-search--bernstein.html …

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      Aral Balkan‏ @aral 22 Nov 2017
      Replying to @stevesong

      That said, should Apple be using Google as default search? No. Sadly, though, Mozilla didn’t even add @duckduckgo before they were shamed into it by Apple adding them to Safari. Odd, wouldn’t you say, for a nonprofit org that exists to protect our rights & privacy?

      7:38 AM - 22 Nov 2017
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        2. Steve Song‏ @stevesong 22 Nov 2017
          Replying to @aral @DuckDuckGo

          I think your analysis of Apple is probably a little naive. They are just like any Silicon Valley company, beholden to their shareholders. Mozilla is complicated by their source of revenue but it doesn't make them a bad organisation.

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        3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 22 Nov 2017
          Replying to @stevesong @DuckDuckGo

          Oddly, you both just called my analysis naïve and summarised it at the same time. It is exactly because they are beholden to their shareholders that they have a fiduciary duty to protect their absolute competitive advantage in privacy over rivals like Google, etc.

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        4. Steve Song‏ @stevesong 22 Nov 2017
          Replying to @aral @DuckDuckGo

          It is a point of view that privacy is Apple's competitive advantage. It does not seem to me that anyone has a genuine competitive advantage in the realm of privacy just at this point.

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        5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 22 Nov 2017
          Replying to @stevesong @DuckDuckGo

          Money Apple makes by violating people’s privacy: ~$0 Money Google makes by violating people’s privacy: ~entire bottom line. Money Apple loses if they don’t violate privacy: ~$0 Money Google loses: ~entire bottom line. They go bankrupt. That’s absolute competitive advantage.

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