LWD

Kind of ironic considering that with Matrix...

• Forward secrecy is kinda hosed
• they store metadata permanently on their servers by design
• A ton of stuff that would otherwise be invisible and signal is visible in your Matrix homeserver, including permanent history of all group membership
• Your data does not belong to you, and that's how the server is built to treat it, e.g.
• GDPR deletion is nonexistent (it won't delete your username or your messages, making it less effective than on Discord, let alone Signal)

... Etc.

Ironically, older federated messaging systems like XMPP might be better by coincidence. Message archiving was an optional addition and some servers, such as the popular Riseup one, do not implement it.

Shelter is a nice FOSS app.

Samsungs also have Secure Folder...

Oh, where to begin. Telegram is wild. It may not be spyware in the traditional sense, but they've already handed over data to the Indian government, left a telephone number scraping vulnerability open for the Iranian government, and gotten caught with "the most backdoor looking bug" with their unwisely handmade encryption algorithm.

I assume steering too, right?

i.e. a "If you brick your car's firmware, at least you can keep driving without unreasonable levels of difficulty or distraction" situation.

This is where I got the screenshot from:

https://www.fakespot.com/privacy-policy

Here's the internal meta-ticket on shopping2023, along with some stuff on fetching ads from servers

And here's their announcement:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/fakespot-joins-mozilla-firefox-shopping-announcement/

(Before Mozilla bought this company, its privacy policy was changed to allow transfer of private data upon sale -- all of it, not just the training model. Here's the old policy for comparison to their April 25 version; 7 days later Mozilla made the acquisition announcement)

Make sure to check your Firefox about:config for "shopping2023" or whatever flag they called it... Soon we'll all have Fakespot installed

I remember a long time ago when Avast came highly recommended, at least back when I had gone looking for reviews. Back when antivirus was still more or less a necessity.

Oh boy, I sure do hope this happens to other companies that do it!

Wouldn't this also cause them to charge more to make up for lost paying customers? 🤔

I trust Linda to run Twitter the same way I trust Ashley to run Vought: responsibility and without deference to a creep with a god complex

A $2 million raise just made the CEO worse at running Mozilla. Honestly, if you think the company should hemorrhage money that rapidly, who's the one that hates it?

The CEO is making an inordinate amount of money. $6.9 million is excessive.

You can argue that Mozilla should be held to the same low standard as every other corporation, but if you do that, you have to take into account that the Mozilla CEO got a huge pay raise in a year where other CEOs got less money.