Steve Teixeira (@stevetex@mastodon.social)
mastodon.social
With just a few days’ notice, Mozilla terminated my employment this month after leaving me hanging on leave without explanation for several months. My discrimination case against them therefore enters a new phase after this wrongful termination. https://mastodon.social/@stevetex/112780506720122370

sigh

  • irreticent@lemmy.world
    18·
    7 hours ago

    adding unique IDs to every installation.

    I wasn’t familiar with that so I did a quick search. For anyone else interested here is some info about it:

    “Internet users who download the Firefox web browser from the official Mozilla website get a unique identifier attached to the installer that is submitted to Mozilla on install and first run.”

    […]

    “Firefox users who prefer to download the browser without the unique identifier may do so in the following two ways:”

    1. Download the Firefox installer from Mozilla’s HTTPS repository (formerly the FTP repository).

    2. Download Firefox from third-party download sites that host the installer, e.g., from Softonic.

    “The downloaded installers do not have the unique identifier, as they are identical whenever they are downloaded.”

    In the comments section someone says:

    “It seems that getting Firefox from GNU/Linux repos (Debian, etc.), doesn’t come with unique IDs.”

    • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Yeah repositories and FTP don’t include that, but it is kind shady that the first way to get it (website) for the majority of regular users (Windows/macOS) has a unique ID - after all this is the company that goes all in for privacy…