The Exigent Duality
Dump Firefox - 11:36 CST, 1/10/21 (Sniper)
I've been using Mozilla since the original bloated, memory hog suite, in maybe 1999 or 2000. I still have old hard drives laying around, with the standalone Phoenix and then Firebird browsers on them-- so I've been a Firefox user since before the browser was even called that.

For those who don't know, the only reason the Mozilla group even exists at all, is because every so many years, Alphabet re-ups the contract to have Google be the default engine in Firefox's search bar-- so I watch for those periodic cycles, where the Mozilla leadership is hand-wringing: "What if Google doesn't re-up this time? It's like 90% of our revenue!"

Of course, Alphabet always does: they basically keep Firefox afloat as "controlled opposition", to keep anti-trust legislation at bay.

So it's with much humor that I read this today, coming from Mozilla's extremist psycho Left-wing nutjob CEO, making threats to Conservatives, from her perch which Google could literally yank out from her tomorrow. How she's in any position to be saying any of this is beyond me-- it's pure hubris. She'll be living in a box under a bridge the instant Mozilla stops being useful to Google.

The only risk here is that Mozilla contributors could start inserting back doors into Firefox which would leak history, circumventing VPN usage. Normally with Free Software, that kind of thing isn't a threat, since so many eyes are on the pull requests-- but in today's climate, where I'd guess 95%+ of people contributing to the code bases are lunatic radical Lefties, it might be on me to police all of that myself. That's a huge time commitment, since I'd need to also review my GNU/Linux distribution's specific build of the browser, too. I guess I'd just need to maintain my own build, and just re-compile it every so often.

I mean, Mozilla's founding principle was an "open internet anyone can use"-- and now they've totally thrown that under the bus. I even question if someone as principled as Richard Stallman will succumb to the mental illness infecting society today, much less the millions of tech people less principled than him.

Things have come to a point where Conservatives almost can't trust computers any more, frankly. That's what you get when one side decides to go full-on Stasi-- because East Germany was such a great model for a society.