There are a few good points in that response and a few I don’t. They also concede a couple points, and complain about somebody who reposted that article (but not the original author I linked, thankfully).

To address your question: For example, sure, maybe Google does cache data but…

1. It’s probably better to have data in two places deleted from one place (Lemmy) instead of neither place
2. Google allows you to specifically request removal of caches anyway
3. Canonizing deletion of data probably has legal and tech benefits. (I’m not a lawyer, but deletion after a reasonable retention rate probably will help server administrators more than it hurts them, and it certainly helps the users.)

That’s actually very boilerplate and tame compared to what Lemmy actually does with your data…

BTW, this Magic Lasso is an ad blocker for Safari.

Between this, and Magic Lasso quoting themselves, this blog post is really hard to take seriously

Hey, it’s been a few weeks. Guess whether Mozilla has updated their privacy policy yet!

It’s very clear what they say on their corporate website, right?

Set up a new email on Gmail or Proton Mail

Two words. They could have removed two words and made the instructions infinitely better.

And this is on the web page where, if you tap on it three times, it instantly exits out and goes to DuckDuckGo. Which is pretty neat.

And the blame for Mozilla’s lack of transparency rests entirely on Mozilla’s shoulders.

If you know anything about Mozilla’s finances at all, you know that they always are one to two years out of date. So your response, which I’ve seen before, is ignorant at best, and really disingenuous at worst. I hope for the former.

I don’t think you have to worry too much about Mozilla running out of money. Right now, they’re spending it like there’s no tomorrow.

CEO salary: Mitchell Baker’s salary jumped by millions of dollars while Firefox browser market share slumped.

Shopping spree: Mozilla purchased two brand new AdTech corporations in the last year or so:

• One of them serves up ads through Firefox on shopping websites and sells your browsing/location history.
• The other works with corporations like TikTok (and at least two more of the top 10 most popular social networks) to analyze their traffic.

Throwing cash around: If wasn’t enough, Mozilla has earmarked $30 million for AI research grants, and another $30 million for random venture capital.

So in general, even if you could to donate directly to the development of Firefox, I think Mozilla should get its financial house in order before you do. (But you cannot donate to the development of Firefox, which is another reason you might want to consider withholding any donations.)

I like this post and the style of writing, but there’s no way on earth this is “easy” to the average, non-technically-minded person. Never mind trying to convince the average Boomer or Gen X-er to follow these steps, it might exhaust a lot of privacy advocates or other people in technical fields. Heck, I’ve seen technically proficient people complain about the complexities of getting Matrix/Element encryption to work, and by comparison, that’s practically a walk in the park.

(I was originally going to make a slightly more conciliatory comment, but then I realized you were not the OP of the original content. I appreciate the transfer of knowledge to the clearer web.)

$6.9 mil the last time they said. And that was in a year where CEO salary was (on average) cut across all for-profit companies, because even businesses react to market forces sometimes.

Either you die young or you live long enough to turn into the Blink engine.

The fact that the United States intentionally makes these zones really subverts the conspiracy theory that the government is using 5G to control our minds (or whatever the theorists say these days).

My thought’s exactly. It doesn’t look perfect, but it’s the first time anybody is seeing this on a nightly release. I’ve had my issues with Firefox, but they’re really cooking right now.

This looks promising. Some of it is half-cooked, but the developers are soliciting feedback and actually responding to it there.

The dropdown should only be visible when the search bar is focused or the new tab / blank page is open

There is work being done to implement that behaviour

Back to the post, Mozilla also poses this question…

How Does This Benefit You?

…before providing some great answers. It’s good to see Mozilla still knows its target audience(s) and is still capable of communicating with them.

I would have loved if they had released an anniversary icon for FF.

You might have seen it already, but is this close enough?

More like a vasectomy.

Some Bitwarden and Firefox Nightly users recently pressed Ctrl+Shift+L and discovered that instead of logging them into their various websites, Firefox enabled Firefox’s AI chatbot.

You posted a privately sent email that contradicts a publicly accessible privacy policy. In the four weeks it took them to send that to you, nothing has been changed, same as the prior year. And they couldn’t even bother to spell their own product name right.

Do you acknowledge that the privacy policy makes it extremely clear that they do sell private data, as outlined in the table that they made for people who struggle to read and mentally parse full paragraphs of text?

What an email to read. I find it particularly valuable for the things it does not say, but not at all encouraging.

We are in the process of updating our privacy policy for additional clarity on all the points referenced in your email.

They don’t say the TOS is incorrect or too broad. And they don’t say they will remove their promise to sell private data to advertisers.

At this time, Fakespot does not sell or share any user data pursuant to any applicable privacy laws.

At this time? Pursuant to the law? If Mozilla is abiding by law and nothing more, that explains why they are legally forced to admit they sell private data to advertisers.

And the law is the lowest bar imaginable. Google operates under the law. Is Mozilla not better than them?

… service providers who make Faksepot run…

…and they can’t spell their own name right.

I got a similar ban from that community after the moderator started spouting conspiracy theories at me and I didn’t agree with them. I noticed they removed most of my comments in that thread, but not all of them… Not sure if it was accidental, but the ones with non-negative karma were the ones that got removed.

This is also how I discovered a moderator that bans you from their community effectively prevents you from deleting any of your posts in it, which makes me feel… Uncertain about the ML mods having such control over the stuff its users post.

I thought some worked by flashing infrared LEDs to overwhelm the cameras’ sensors. AFAIK there are multiple varieties of camera repellant.

after many months, and being blocked by more and more external servers, it is clear that image proxying is seriously degrading the user experience

By “external servers,” does that mean external to the Lemmy network itself?

I’m interested how Mastodon handles this, since it is a much more active social network that also encourages media sharing.