Firefox Relay: create email aliases to combat spam and improve privacy

Mozilla revealed Firefox Private Relay, an experimental service to protect email addresses through the creation of aliases, in May 2020. The service was invite-only at the time but it is now available to anyone who wants to give it a try.

Now called Firefox Relay, it is available globally. A Firefox Account is required to sign-up for Firefox Relay and Firefox users may install the companion extension to better integrate the service into the browser and improve the generation of aliases, e.g. when signing up for a new service.

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/08/22/firefox-relay-create-email-aliases-to-combat-spam-and-improve-privacy/

#Mozilla #Firefox #Relay #spam

Firefox Daylight for Android arrives with Enhanced Tracking Protection, new UI, and GeckoView

After more than a year of development, Mozilla today launched Firefox 79 for Android, branded Firefox Daylight. Like Firefox 57 Quantum, Firefox Daylight gets its own name as it marks “a new beginning for our Android browser.” The new version is “an entirely overhauled, faster, and more convenient product.” Firefox Daylight includes Enhanced Tracking Protection on by default, a new user interface, Mozilla’s own mobile browser engine GeckoView, and a slew of new features. Mozilla is rolling out the new Firefox for Android globally, starting in Germany, France, and the U.K. today and in North America from August 27.

Firefox has about 200 million active users, according to Mozilla, making it a major platform for web developers to consider. But that number has been steadily falling over the years. Furthermore, on mobile, where users are less likely to change their default browser, Firefox holds less than 1% market share, according to Net Applications. That’s why the company decided to hit reset on its Android browser.

The launch comes at a difficult time for Mozilla, which earlier this month announced layoffs of about 250 employees. We spoke with Mozilla senior product manager Vesta Zare about the Firefox Daylight launch. “I wouldn’t say it was impacted that much by the layoffs, but of course everyone was impacted,” Zare said. “But I do want to stress that this remains a priority, a high area of focus for us, especially on mobile.”

👀 👉🏼 https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/25/firefox-daylight-android-enhanced-tracking-protection-geckoview/

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https://www.w3.org/2020/06/machine-learning-workshop/talks/privacy_focused_machine_translation_in_firefox.html

#Mozilla #Firefox #translation #machine #privacy

Mozilla Thunderbird 78.2 Released with More OpenPGP Improvements

After pushing the Firefox 80 web browser to the stable channel and Firefox 81 to the beta seed, Mozilla has now released the a new version of his popular and open-source email client, Thunderbird 78.2.

Coming a month after Thunderbird 78.1, the Thunderbird 78.2 release is here to further improve the recent OpenPGP implementation, which lets users send encrypted emails with ease.

In Mozilla Thunderbird 78.2, saved drafts are now encrypted by default when OpenPGP is enabled, encrypted email is now send even if the email address contains uppercase characters, and automatic signing for encrypted messages now works in more scenarios.

https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-thunderbird-78-2-released-with-more-openpgp-improvements

#Mozilla #Thunderbird #PGP #email #client

Thunderbird Email Client Now Ships with OpenPGP Support Enabled by Default

It took a few releases, but the free, open-source and cross-platform Thunderbird email client, news and chat client is now shipping with OpenPGP support enabled by default in the latest release.

Just a few days after releasing the Thunderbird 78.2.0 update, which brought lots of improvements to the OpenPGP implementation that lets users send encrypted emails, here’s come another small, yet important update.

Thunderbird 78.2.1 has been released today and it finally enables the OpenPGP feature by default. That’s amazing news for privacy and security fans enthusiasts using the open-source email client as they won’t have to go to all the trouble of enabling OpenPGP in the latest Thunderbird 78 series.

https://9to5linux.com/thunderbird-email-client-now-ships-with-openpgp-support-enabled-by-default

#Mozilla #Thunderbird #OpenPGP

Firefox Nightly for Android to get full add-ons support

The Nightly version of the new Firefox web browser for Google's Android operating system will soon get full add-ons support according to a post by Mozilla's Add-ons Community Manager Caitlin Neiman on the official Mozilla Add-ons blog.

Mozilla launched a completely redesigned version of Firefox for Android in July 2020. The browser replaced the underlying engine with a Mozilla's new mobile browser engine GeckoView to improve web compatibility and performance of the browser.

Firefox users were migrated to the new version automatically, provided that the automatic update function was not disabled. One of the main issues that some users experienced after the upgrade was that add-ons support was limited.

The new Firefox supported nine extensions, and not the thousands of extensions that were supported by the previous versions. While these were the most popular based on user installs, it meant that Firefox users noticed that all other extensions were disabled and could not be used anymore.

Mozilla did promise to bring full add-ons support to Firefox, and it appears that a first step is being made soon in that regard.

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/09/03/firefox-nightly-for-android-to-get-full-add-ons-support/

#Mozilla #Firefox #Nightly #addons

Killed by Mozilla - A list of discontinued Mozilla products and services.

👉🏼 Inspired by Killed by Google 👈🏼
https://killedbygoogle.com/

👉🏼 Killed by Mozilla 👈🏼
https://killedbymozilla.com/

#mozilla #google #killed #graveyard
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Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up 400%

Mozilla is in an absolute state: high overheads, falling usage of Firefox, questionable sources of revenue and now making big cuts to engineering as their income falls.

Mozilla recently announced that they would be dismissing 250 people. That's a quarter of their workforce so there are some deep cuts to their work too. The victims include: the MDN docs (those are the web standards docs everyone likes better than w3schools), the Rust compiler and even some cuts to Firefox development. Like most people I want to see Mozilla do well but those three projects comprise pretty much what I think of as the whole point of Mozilla, so this news is a a big let down.

The stated reason for the cuts is falling income. Mozilla largely relies on "royalties" for funding. In return for payment, Mozilla allows big technology companies to choose the default search engine in Firefox - the technology companies are ultimately paying to increase the number of searches Firefox users make with them. Mozilla haven't been particularly transparent about why these royalties are being reduced, except to blame the corona-virus.

I'm sure the coronavirus is not a great help but I suspect the bigger problem is that Firefox's market share is now a tiny fraction of its previous size and so the royalties will be smaller too - fewer users, so fewer searches and therefore less money for Mozilla.

👀 👉🏼 http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

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#YouTubeRegrets - #PropagandaWatch mozilla

Are you concerned that watching YouTube-recommended CNN propaganda has turned you into a raging imperial warmonger? Or that that MSNBC video in the sidebar harmed you with its medical misinformation? Well, the Mozilla Foundation wants to hear all about your #YouTubeRegrets

https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=37805


Watch on:

Archive https://archive.org/details/youtuberegrets

BitChute https://www.bitchute.com/video/Fk_Dgc1Y8sU

LBRY https://odysee.com/@corbettreport:0/youtuberegrets:8

Minds https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1158013056763416576

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk_Dgc1Y8sU

Podcast https://www.corbettreport.com/mp4/propagandawatch-youtuberegrets.mp4


#yt #youtube #recommendations #mozilla

Unfck the Internet

We love it, we need it, and we can all feel the ways it’s fcked. Together we can unfck it. Start by choosing the only non-profit-backed, people-first browser.

👀 👉🏼 Let’s get started
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/unfck/

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Internet history can be used for “reidentification” finds study by Mozilla

A recent research paper has reaffirmed that our internet history can be reliably used to identify us. The research was conducted by Sarah Bird, Ilana Segall, and Martin Lopatka from Mozilla and is titled: Replication: Why We Still Can’t Browse in Peace: On the Uniqueness and Reidentifiability of Web Browsing Histories. The paper was released at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security and is a continuation of a 2012 paper that highlighted the same reidentifiability problem.

‼️ Just your internet history can be used to reidentify you on the internet ‼️

Using data from 52,000 consenting Firefox users, the researchers were able to identify 48,919 distinct browsing profiles which had 99% uniqueness.

This is especially concerning because internet history is routinely sold by your internet service provider (ISP) and mobile data provider to third party advertising and marketing firms which are demonstrably able to tie a list of sites back to an individual they already have a profile on – even if the ISP claims to be “anonymizing” the data being sold. This is a legally sanctioned activity ever since 2017 when Congress voted to get rid of broadband privacy and allow the monetization of this type of data collection.

This type of “history-based profiling” is undoubtedly being used to build ad profiles on internet users around the world. Previous studies have shown that an IP address usually stays static for about a month – which the researchers noted: “is more than enough time to build reidentifiable browsing profiles.”

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https://www.usenix.org/system/files/soups2020-bird.pdf

👀 👉🏼 https://www.cozyit.com/internet-history-can-be-used-for-reidentification-finds-study-by-mozilla/

#mozilla #study #research #internet #history #reidentification #thinkabout #pdf
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Mozilla VPN

Available in 6 countries now. More regions coming soon.

We currently offer Mozilla VPN in the US, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia.

The Mozilla VPN clients are compatible with Windows 10 (64-bit only), Mac (10.15 and up), Android (version 6 and up), iOS (13.0 and up), and Linux (Ubuntu-only).

https://vpn.mozilla.org/

#mozilla #VPN

Developers, it’s time for you to choose a side - Clean up the web!

Will you help rid the web of privacy-invading tracking or be complicit in it?

🚮 Remove third-party scripts from Google, Facebook, etc.
This includes Google Analytics (one of the most prevalent trackers in the world), YouTube videos, Facebook login widgets, etc.

These scripts enable people farmers like Google and Facebook to track people across the web as they go from site to site. If you embed them in your site, you’re complicit in enabling this tracking.

And yes, that absolutely includes fucking Google AMP.

https://cleanuptheweb.org/

👉🏼 Read as well: Nobody is flying to join Google’s FLoC - #Brave, #Vivaldi, #Edge, and #Mozilla are all out

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22387492/google-floc-ad-tech-privacy-browsers-brave-vivaldi-edge-mozilla-chrome-safari

#cleanuptheweb #floc #google #DeleteGoogle #facebook #DeleteFacebook #tracking #thinkabout
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Beware of Applications Misusing Root Stores

We have been alerted about applications that use the root store provided by Mozilla for purposes other than what Mozilla’s root store is curated for. We provide a root store to be used for server authentication (TLS) and for digitally signed and encrypted email (S/MIME). Applications that use Mozilla’s root store for a purpose other than that have a critical security vulnerability. With the goal of improving the security ecosystem on the internet, below we clarify the correct and incorrect use of Mozilla’s root store, and provide tools for correct use.

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Misuse of Root Stores: We have been alerted that some applications are using root stores provided by Mozilla or an operating system (e.g. Linux) for purposes other than what the root store is curated for. An application that uses a root store for a purpose other than what the store was created for has a critical security vulnerability. This is no different than failing to validate a certificate at all.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/05/10/beware-of-applications-misusing-root-stores/

#mozilla #root #store #applications
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Mozilla encourages laws censoring ideas

https://lbry.tv/@Lunduke:e/MozillaCensorship:4

Mozilla -- the mega corporation behind Firefox -- has been working, at high speed, to restrict speech across the Internet. Specifically of people that do not share their political afiliation.

On January 8th, 2021, the Mozilla CEO, Mitchell Baker, wrote an article entitled "We need more than deplatforming."
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/

"as reprehensible as the actions of Donald Trump are, the rampant use of the internet to foment violence and hate, and reinforce white supremacy is about more than any one personality. Donald Trump is certainly not the first politician to exploit the architecture of the internet in this way, and he won’t be the last. We need solutions that don’t start after untold damage has been done."

Baker goes on to explain some of the ways Internet services should not only completely deplatform (read: ban and censor) specific political leaders... but also silence and restrict statements or ideas that Mozilla disagrees with politically.

More recently, Mozilla has become actively critical of the YouTube video recommendation system. And not for the reasons that so many -- myself included -- dislike it (such as irrelevant video recommendations, shadowbanning of many creators, etc.).

Mozilla's objection seems to be primarily that some recommended videos might contain ideas that don't agree with the (highly political) worldview of Mozilla leadership.

Mozilla repeatedly equates "Right Wing" politics with "hate". As on their "YouTube Regrets" page https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/youtube-regrets/ they have set up. Quote: "Any search for positive LGBT content results in a barrage of homophobic, right-wing recommendations."

But Mozilla is not stopping with simply expressing their opinion that Conservative (or "Right Wing") voices should be silence...

On June 8th, 2021, Mozilla posted an official blog post entitled, "Mozilla Explains: Why Does YouTube Recommend Conspiracy Theory Videos?"
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-explains-why-does-youtube-recommend-conspiracy-theory-videos/

In that post, Mozilla fellow, Guillaume Chaslot, "recommends regulators step in and issue laws that begin to curb this."

That's right. Mozilla Corporation (the mega corporation owned by Mozilla Foundation -- both run by Mitchell Baker) is seeking actual legislation to make showing "Right Wing" content go away.

To be clear: This is horrific. Not because Mozilla seeks to silence Conservative ideas or voices. But because Mozilla seeks to silence any political voices at all. This would be equally as disturbing if Mozilla were to make statements against "Left Wing" ideas or voices.


#Mozilla #censorship #lunduke

#Mozilla and #Meta (#Facebook) are now actually working together

https://www.xda-developers.com/mozilla-meta-interoperable-private-attribution/

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/17/each-firefox-download-has-a-unique-identifier/

- no opt-in, only opt-out
- opt-out only after installation, when tracking already happend
- Telemetry of Firefox is worse than chrome because in Chrome it's an opt-in, while in Firefox it's an opt-out; average users won't opt-out anyway

Great work Mozilla, thats how you violate the GDPR 😁

@no_firefox

#liarfox #firefox #mozilla #telemetry

France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet –Mozzila Blog

"In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability. It would force browser providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites present on a government provided list. Such a move will overturn decades of established content moderation norms and provide a playbook for authoritarian governments"

#censorship
#france #browser #cybersecurity #mozilla #security #surveillance

#Mozilla #Firefox blocks anti-Censorship and pro-Privacy extensions in Russia

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5738970/mozilla-firefox-blocks-anti-censorship-and-pro-privacy-extensions-in-russia