This is the second such email I have received recently. Seems legit but I don’t recognize the domain in the link to sign, and it seems like the people who make Firefox would know that the people who use Firefox would be hesitant to click. IDGI. Anyone else getting these?

Edit 2024-04-10: Got a new email today and it appears all the links now go to links dot mozilla dot org. I won’t flatter myself that this post had anything to do with that, but maybe the same thought occurred to someone at Mozilla. Nice. ✌️

  • LWD@lemm.ee
    322·
    8 months ago

    Mozilla is part political advocacy group. This is part of the Mozilla Manifesto Pledge for a Healthy Internet:

    We are committed to an internet that elevates critical thinking, reasoned argument, shared knowledge, and verifiable facts.

    BTW, if you donate to Mozilla, your money goes to this.
    Not Firefox development.
    This.

    Ironic because Mozilla subsidiaries break several of their principles now. Thanks to FakeSpot alone:

    • They now sell user data to advertisers (Principle 4)
    • They are using that data to build a price-checker into their browser that biases sites of its choosing (Principle 5)
    • The selected sites are the biggest hubs of centralized commerce in the US (Principle 6)
    • Nobody in the community was consulted about this or even requested it (Principle 8)
    • jetAEnglish
      31·
      8 months ago

      100%

      They’re advocating for moderation of the internet, Shadow banning of wrong think, it’s antithetical to a free and open communication system.

      They want to create a platform where essential authority decides what’s true, and what’s acceptable, and everything else just silently disappears into the void. Sure at the beginning, the " right people" Will run the system. But give it 5 to 15 years and the wrong people will kill public discourse on any critical conversation