@Haydar Letās do both :) (Of course, they wonāt change but they can be forced to comply with the law if we can influence the right laws. Not that Iām hugely confident we can but stillā¦)
Me: Their literal head of policy (now ex, apparently) begged me to go easy on them at a data protection conference and asked āwhy do you hold us to a higher standard?ā¦ Weāre just another silicon valley tech companyā
Folks: Thatās not what they are. Why do you think thatās what they are?
ā¦ And thatās why it riles me up to no end to see corporations like Mozilla Corporation that are not what they say they are getting away with blatantly lying to our faces while very successfully staving off effective regulation for Big Tech, sucking up funding, and acting as honeypots for devs who do really care only to neutralise them with projects they know will not actually threaten the Silicon Valley status quo.
(Also, I suck at stepping away from the keyboard apparently!) :)
And I get it. Everythingās so shit you WANT to believe there are folks out there doing what they say they doā¦ that theyāre on your side, fighting Big Tech, protecting your privacyā¦ I get it because ā fuck it ā I want to believe that. And yes, there are folks like that tooā¦ and theyāre usually struggling to get by and rarely get any funding or support from anyoneā¦
(Now, I fully expect to host my own git repositories in the future but the moral of the story is that it wonāt be on a piece of software designed to run 1-100,000 accounts but one designed to be owned and used by one person. And itāll be the same site/software I chat to my friends on. The difference in complexity between those two things is orders of magnitude. And what that translates to in practice is that the latter can be set up and maintained by everyday people without technical knowledge.)
Me upgrading GitLab today: Fails due to key expiration error. Fix that. Re-run upgrade. Fails due to Letās Encrypt provisioning error. Reconfigure. Re-run upgrade. Fails due to database migration error (itās just one of those āexpected batched background migration for the given configuration to be marked as 'finished', but it is 'active'ā errors (we all know what those are like, amirite?). Fix that. Re-run configuration. Works.
Framasoft are one of the few no-bullshit, non-Silicon Valley organisations working to protect your freedoms online and theyāve been hugely supportive of us since the very beginning.
@jwildeboer Same router. Unbelievable violation of privacy. So Mozilla is keeping location history tied to your router. I never consented to that. If this doesnāt violate GDPR at its core, we might as well throw GDPR in the bin.
And to think Mozilla Location Services is presented during the installation process of nearly every Linux distribution.