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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 Mar 28

    Aral Balkan Retweeted Firefox  🔥

    Mozilla is entirely funded by surveillance capitalism. You took over a billion dollars from Google, which has the same business model as Facebook. Then you took hundreds of millions more from Yahoo; same business model. Now you’re back in bed with Google… Hypocritical much?https://twitter.com/firefox/status/978639310814527489 …

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    Firefox  🔥Verified account @firefox
    This new extension isolates your Facebook identity from the rest of your web activity (which makes it a lot harder for them to use activity collected *off Facebook* to send you ads and other targeted messages). https://mzl.la/2GetoR1 
    2:09 AM - 28 Mar 2018
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      2. Gemma Hentsch‏ @gemmahentsch Apr 7
        Replying to @aral

        Unless we’re gonna pay for our web browsers, how else are we going to fund Firefox and the ilk? Its all well and good to blame companies like Firefox, but we all were demanding the free lunch.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Apr 7
        Replying to @gemmahentsch

        (a) We’re not going to fund multibillion-dollar Silicon Valley public relations & lobbying vehicles like Mozilla (b) We are going to fund from the commons small, independent organisations to create ethical decentralised, free/open, interoperable alternatives for the common good.

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      1. Jeremiah Lee‏ @JeremiahLee Mar 28
        Replying to @aral

        Do you think Mozilla deserves some nuance in that it does not generate revenue from surveillance capitalism itself? Bill Gates made billions anti-competitively, but the ebola fighting NGOs he donated millions to would not be considered "in bed" with extreme capitalism by most ppl

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      2. Boris Claas Kiefer‏ @hugin84 Mar 28
        Replying to @aral

        they have received money, but as far as I'm aware they're not collecting data, so I wouldn't call it hypocrisy. That being said, it would be nice if the isolation was not limited to one bad actor

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      3. Dan Callahan‏ @callahad Mar 28
        Replying to @hugin84 @aral

        You can isolate as many sites as you want :) this is just a specific version of our more generic Multi-Account Containers feature: https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/introducing-firefox-multi-account-containers/ … If you want to isolate every domain, automatically, we have that too (merged from the Tor browser):https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/first-party-isolation/ …

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      1. Boris VAN HOYTEMA { 👩‍🚀}‏ @bvhme Mar 29
        Replying to @aral

        Taking funding from an entity is not the same as adopting a business model.

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      1. Geoffrey Crofte  🐲‏ @geoffrey_crofte Mar 28
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        Could it be kind of à Robin Hood action? Steal from the GAFAM to give to the protector of freedom and privacy. Candid question :D

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      1. Zwarte Piet is racisme‏ @vreer Mar 28
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        That's fucked up. Hope that the extension works however

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      1. Javier Sánchez‏ @javidotpro Mar 28
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        You made some good points that I was not aware of, I always took the good word of @Mozila because of their foundation and non-profit model as well as their Internet Health program. What do you suggest instead? I take that you don't browse the web with @firefox.

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