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firefox trademark restrictions

Posted Aug 8, 2009 1:52 UTC (Sat) by mattdm (subscriber, #18)
Parent article: Ubuntu's multisearch surprise

This seems to be a strong justification for the Firefox trademark policy which disallowed shipping non-default extensions. It seems like the bulk of the upset isn't that Ubuntu configured their default web browser to use their own search service -- it's that they configured Firefox to do it.

Mozilla is as bad or worse

Posted Aug 8, 2009 9:52 UTC (Sat) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] (3 responses)

Unfortunately, with Mozilla's revenue almost completely based on Google receiving masses of personal information about the users of Firefox, Mozilla's respect for privacy is very poor and cannot be relied on.

Yes, it certainly is about time to move to IceWeasel or IceCat or Konqueror.

Mozilla is as bad or worse

Posted Aug 11, 2009 5:10 UTC (Tue) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link] (2 responses)

Google receives no more "personal information" from Firefox users than from users of any other Web browser who do a Google search. You're making stuff up.

Mozilla is as bad or worse

Posted Aug 11, 2009 9:47 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] (1 responses)

Mozilla's funding comes almost exclusively from Google.

Many plugins have been written to protect Firefox users from having their personal info being collected by Google. If Mozilla put the users' interests first, it would include some of these plugins in their official version of Firefox. But they don't. Their top priority is getting funding from Google.

Further, they use their trademark policy to make it problematic for redistributors to add privacy features.

Users should choose the version of Firefox that serves their needs. Mozilla's official version is the weakest in terms of privacy protection, so users should avoid it.

Mozilla is as bad or worse

Posted Aug 11, 2009 17:43 UTC (Tue) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link]

You still refuse to identify what "personal information" you think Google is collecting. I have to assume you're referring to cookies associated with Google searches (which do not tell Google anything personal that you don't reveal in your searches). But you *can* configure Firefox to block that cookie, and Iceweasel and Konqueror don't block cookies by default, so they are no better.

I don't know why you single Mozilla out, but it's irrational.