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The Many Mistakes Of Mozilla - DistroTube (m.youtube.com)

submitted 11 months ago by cloudless@lemmy.cafe to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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I removed the click bait part of the title.

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[–] alyth@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The speaker makes a lot of points with no evidence to back them up where he should have some. That's alright if you want a conversation about browsers at the virtual bar table, but clearly not a great video essay. Some of his points

An incident in 2017 where Firefox installed a plugin called Mr. Robot without the user's consent
Firefox's default privacy settings are bad
Donations to Mozilla don't go towards software development
The chromium engine has better performance
Use Brave (repeated about 100 times)

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 11 months ago

Donations to Mozilla don't go towards software development

Donations are to the Mozilla Foundation.

Firefox is developed by Mozilla Cerporation, which is its subsidiary.

A corporation cannot receive tax-free donations from the public.