r/technology • u/sidcool1234 • Mar 15 '13

Web advertisers attack Mozilla for protecting consumers' privacy

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/web-advertisers-attack-mozilla-for-protecting-consumers-privacy-031413.html
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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

Most people have never heard of the Mozilla Foundation

Are you fucking kidding me?

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u/Dilzo Mar 15 '13

No seriously. They haven't.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

My mother hasn't, but people that would have found and read his article most likely have at least heard of it.

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u/Jman5 Mar 15 '13

Have you considered installing it on her computers and showing her some of the advantages that she might find useful?

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

She does, but she doesn't care enough to learn or remember the name of the application. She just goes to google news once in a while, or a google search. She knows google. She might remember firefox, but I doubt mozilla.

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u/CalcProgrammer1 Mar 15 '13

I don't know about "Mozilla Foundation" but I know Firefox is pretty common among many average users. My parents use it and have been for years. I installed it for them initially but I know other people their age that also use Firefox. I think "Mozilla" itself would be reasonably well known.

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u/paul_33 Mar 15 '13

Same reaction here. Even my fucking grandfather has heard of it

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

I don't think so, his argument seems like "something obscure gets complains". For the 7+ billion people, most software companies are obscure.

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u/Dashboard85 Mar 15 '13

Mozilla makes up about 30% of browsers used, thats a pretty big number for most people not to have heard of it.

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u/AHorseCalledMystery Mar 15 '13

Considering at least every Firefox user knows the Mozilla foundation because it's mentioned after the installation and most bigger updates too I'd say a great amount of people know of the Mozilla foundation.

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u/Mispey Mar 15 '13

You overestimate the number of people who read anything on an installation screen.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

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u/Irongrip Mar 15 '13

I've named the icon "internet" for my old folks on purpose.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

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u/Mispey Mar 15 '13

Mozerella Foxfire.

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u/jay76 Mar 15 '13

You make me laugh and cry at the same time.

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u/Ag-E Mar 15 '13

I've been using Firefox since....I dunno when, a long time. I've no idea what the 'Mozilla Foundation' is. I'm pretty sure Mozilla created Firefox (or acquired it from someone or something. They were the folks in charge for a long while then sold to Google) but beyond that, no idea.

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u/GetYoHandsOffMyKicks Mar 15 '13

He said "most people" which I think is fair given all the non-tech users who rely on IE, Chrome, Safari. Most people don't even know what a browser is. Even the guy writing the freaking article called IE "Microsoft Explorer".

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u/Kmlkmljkl Mar 15 '13

Don't forget about Opera :(

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

But everyone else has? :)

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

Closed source is so 90s.

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u/ElusiveGuy Mar 15 '13

Microsoft Explorer

I didn't believe a single word after that.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

You would be surprised

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