Comments on: People Trust Mozilla, Show Confidence Regarding Security and Privacy http://techrights.org/2013/09/26/security-and-privacy-poll/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: NotZed http://techrights.org/2013/09/26/security-and-privacy-poll/comment-page-1/#comment-137809 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 03:30:27 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=72140#comment-137809 If you follow the money Mozilla gets it’s income from advertising as well. So I’m not sure they can be trusted all that much either for the same reason as google. Look how long they’re taking to block 3rd party cookies which is an absolute no brainer and should never have been enabled in the first place.

The fact that they’ve convinced people otherwise is just effective marketing.

Also look at their approach to plugins. One can argue fairly strongly for the security implications but make no mistake, flash and java plugins are also competing with ‘html5′ as a platform. But betting the farm on ‘html5′ as a platform is a big risk for Mozilla because they will forever be playing catch-up and a company like google can make internet-breaking changes on it’s own due to it’s market share. It’s already happened with video.

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