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No.
It's, by the way, one thing every child should be taught to say, and traditionally an important part of one's upbringing, and one strongly eroded in the last 20 years.
Simultaneously to that various people with strength are putting before us sets of false choices all leading to the same result, and we pick "the lesser evil" only to avoid saying "no".
We don't owe advertisers shit. They can go fuck themselves with a dry aspen stick. We don't owe Facebook shit. They can go swim in sewers. We don't owe Mozilla shit. They can go milk bulls.
Just no and nothing in exchange for something we don't owe them.
So don't use Firefox.
That's right...use librewolf or mullvad browser or arkenfox...
If FF acts like this and the rest follow, well let's pitch and get another one going.
Either way, if people want Foss software, we will need to pay for it.
That's true, of course, but there's a difference between paying and being exploited.
If they want this product to be profitable, then cheating by giving users something that steals their information is not the way.
Crowdfunding is good, donates are good, paid software is good even. Or paid services for free and FOSS software.
One of the reasons paying for software is not very popular is because it was historically kinda hard to just pay on a website. But now people do that all the time.
Why? It's a gift. One can clean it of unwanted features and use it.
Or if it's not a gift, they should make it clear.
Cheating is bad. Being gifted a thing and then told some bullshit how you now need to give your blood to Devil to show your gratitude, you should just say "fuck off" and get on with your life.
Will do.
Or just unclick that box?
I've seen multiple times that checkboxes get checked again after updates, it's easier to switch and forget about it. I don't think it will be the last time Mozilla gets shady.