Linux Mint Joins Mozilla in Financed by google

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Mint has announced that it has a new improved relationship (er sellout) with Mozilla and will receive money for user searches by the now default google engine.

Further announcement is an intended move to allow the browser updates to come directly from mozilla and be initiated from within the browser.

Means yet another sell out of the tattered remains of user privacy to big surveillance and avertising giant google.
And Mozilla can quietly add all the unique ids, studies hidden extensions it likes to user installations, I suspect that will include refreshing
or changing preferences through an /etc/firefox-esr/firefox-esr.js. or equivalent for current fox.

Something we should all closely watch as that file overrides user preferences it could end up being used to ensure telemetry, health reporting or studys
are quietly switched on. Health reporting is another snide name for telemetry. I have set the file to read only.

Both a .js and policies can be placed in that file and will be applied to all users, placed there kids will need to learn a bit if they want to override
for any reason, that is really easy with normal placement of user.js in home.

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I don’t understand this problem.
There are some very big companies that do a very good job that is given to us for free (as opposed to MS)
If in exchange they take some of our data, to sell to marketing and advertising agencies, what harm can it do to me?
At the most I will have some more advertising targeted on my needs.
I live in the “free” world, even if in Italy the post-communists are a force that seems to come out of a book by Horwell, I have nothing to hide, I am not an outlaw and I prefer to have those things for free, also if I pay this advantage with some info of mine.

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You are, apparently, employing a form of moral reasoning called “utilitarianism.” Stripped down to its essentials, utilitarianism is a moral principle that holds that the morally right course of action in any situation is the one that produces the greatest balance of benefits over harms for everyone affected. So long as a course of action produces maximum benefits for everyone, utilitarianism fails to take into account considerations of justice, and does not care whether the benefits are produced by lies, manipulation, or coercion.

http://www.scu.edu/ethics/privacy/loss-of-online-privacy-whats-the-harm/

By tracking your online searches and communications, companies do note, do make assumptions about, and sometimes do disclose more than just the preferences and interests that you openly express. If you search online for information about sexually transmitted diseases or laws that protect whistleblowers, for information about domestic violence or the Dalai Lama, for Occupy protests or for sites that allow you to download songs without paying for them, a variety of entities will know—and draw conclusions about you based on those searches. You may then find that ads appearing on pages that you visit will reflect those subjects that you searched for, or even subjects that you discussed in emails that you may have considered private.

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Privacy is about much broader values than just “hiding things.” […] Ultimately the fullest retort to the “nothing to hide” impulse is a richer philosophical defense of privacy that articulates its importance to human life—the human need for a refuge from the eye of the community, and from the self-monitoring that living with others entails; the need for space in which to play and to try out new ideas, identities, and behaviors, without lasting consequences; and the importance of maintaining the balance of power between individuals and the state.

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I live in the “free” world, even if in Italy the post-communists are a force that seems to come out of a book by Horwell.

Orwell could never imagine the amount of surveillance and other information Governments,companys, agencys and non government
organisations in the world you call free gathers.

Dreamer
I suggest you go to Greece or Calais and see how free it is in the EU. You are living in one of the most corrupt countries
in europe which is mostly run by two very famous Non Government Organisations who are still in many areas the law of their
stronghold.

Go near the Greek fugitive camps and you will feel lucky to live after what police and Border forces do to you. Same goes in
France where the police are more violent than the drug gangs in Paris Banlieus.

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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Hard enough for me to sell a used Linux laptop as it is to the local neighbors who don’t give a hoot about any of this.

Hence best buy and Walmart are where they go to buy computers. It’s a losing battle my friend.

Nobody here cares about global privacy. Just local privacy.

Good to go though your threads on how to fix things instead just complaining about it.
That is commendable in my book and the sign of manhood.
I tip my hat.

Edit: You would be surprised at all the likes I recieved from global antiX users on our facebook group when I posted google repository links and how to do it for getting google products directly.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/89717832488/?multi_permalinks=10159311362337489&notif_id=1642290454298889&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic&ref=notif

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by rokytnji.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by rokytnji.

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