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Mozilla Pushing Ads in "Suggestion" Clothing, Other Mozilla News

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 15th of September 2021 09:31:16 PM Filed under
Moz/FF
  • Data@Mozilla: Data and Firefox Suggest

    Firefox Suggest is a new feature that displays direct links to content on the web based on what users type into the Firefox address bar. Some of the content that appears in these suggestions is provided by partners, and some of the content is sponsored.

    In building Firefox Suggest, we have followed our long-standing Lean Data Practices and Data Privacy Principles. Practically, this means that we take care to limit what we collect, and to limit what we pass on to our partners. The behavior of the feature is straightforward–suggestions are shown as you type, and are directly relevant to what you type.

  • Get where you’re going faster, with Firefox Suggest

    Today, people have to work too hard to find what they want online, sifting through and steering clear of content, clutter and click-bait not worthy of their time. Over time, navigation on the internet has become increasingly centralized and optimized for clicks and scrolling, not for getting people to where they want to go or what they are looking for quickly.

    We’d like to help change this, and we think Firefox is a good place to start.

    Today we’re announcing our first step towards doing that with a new feature called Firefox Suggest.

    Firefox Suggest is a new discovery feature that is built directly into the browser. Firefox Suggest acts as a trustworthy guide to the better web, surfacing relevant information and sites to help people accomplish their goals.

  • Open Letter to Mozilla – Google’s Browser dominance – is Firefox not listening to user’s needs/requests? – Linus view on it-security
  • Niko Matsakis: CTCFT 2021-09-20 Agenda

    The next “Cross Team Collaboration Fun Times” (CTCFT) meeting will take place next Monday, on 2021-09-20 (in your time zone)! This post covers the agenda. You’ll find the full details (along with a calendar event, zoom details, etc) on the CTCFT website.

  • Support.Mozilla.Org: What’s up with SUMO – September 2021

    September is going to be the last month for Q3, so let’s see what we’ve been up to for the past quarter.

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VPN Again

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 15th of September 2021 11:12:05 PM.
  • Mozilla VPN adds advanced privacy features: Custom DNS servers and Multi-hop [Ed: Mozilla has chosen to post this on the same day it said it collects data on Firefox users to push ads (sorry, I mean “suggestions”) to them]

    Your online privacy remains our top priority, and we know that one of the first things to secure your privacy when you go online is to get on a Virtual Private Network (VPN), an encrypted connection that serves as a tunnel between your computer and VPN server. Today, we’re launching the latest release of our Mozilla VPN, our fast and easy-to-use VPN service, with two new advanced privacy features that offer additional layers of privacy. This includes your choice of Domain Name System (DNS) servers whether it’s the default we’ve provided, our suggested ad blocking, tracker blocking or ad plus tracker blocking DNS server, or an alternative one, plus the multi-hop feature which allows you to add two different servers to give you twice the amount of encryption. Today’s Mozilla VPN release is available on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android platforms (it will soon be available on iOS later this week).

Firefox Suggest is a New Search Feature...

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 16th of September 2021 08:05:45 PM.
  • Firefox Suggest is a New Search Feature of Mozilla’s Web Browser [Ed: Miss the point that this is Mozilla pushing ads ("sponsored") under the guise of "suggest" into Firefox]

    Mozilla announced that it’s adding recommendations to the URL bar in Firefox through a new feature called Firefox Suggest.

    Firefox Suggest is a new custom search and sponsored suggestions feature of Mozilla’s Firefox web browser. The last month Mozilla is quietly testing Firefox Suggest on a limited number of users in the US. Now Mozilla is rolling out a Firefox Suggest feature to all.

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