I think there are some valuable points here. My only counter would be
Mozilla can't effectively remove Google by default at this point as it
accounts for somewhere between 80% and 90% of the non-profit's revenue.
http://pulse2.com/2012/11/17/mozilla-earned-163-million-in-2011/
To my knowledge, DuckDuckGo (and it's privacy preserving competitor
StartPageSearch) have no revenue streams that could effectively fund
Mozilla.
One additional comment, if you're want to develop to support an enhanced
privacy conscious web browser, I would point you to the TOR project
which uses a modified Firefox ESR specifically engineered to protect the
privacy of the users. See
https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en to volunteer.
Jason
On 7/22/2013 4:10 PM, Kd M wrote:
There is a wide open space for improving privacy and security on the internet.
Little to nothing has changed since 1992 when Steve jobs demoed email
encryption (http://youtu.be/7mgG4a591zQ?t=59m38s). The world changed though and
many people use webmail these days. This is a space where Mozilla could take
upon itself to set standards by introducing the means to securely generate and
store key pairs, exposing this through API's for extensions or rolling one that
is actually usable and integrated for all.
It would be pertinent to look ahead and support the design of distributed DNS
systems. This can not be done with extensions. In 1990 in response to concerns
from the EU that ICANN may permit the USG to abuse DNS for national reasons
they responded saying they would only ever ensure the functionality of the
internet. 3 years ago they were responsible for helping DHS take down URLs that
linked to content or were political in nature. So supporting distributed DNS is
the right thing to do to protect the neutrality of the internet in the future.
Finally, and this i guess is the hardest sell, Mozilla should use duckduckgo by
default.
This may sound all political in nature but only if you already divested from
the idea that political neutrality is important to the internet. These ideas
help save that neutrality and protect the definition of privacy those of us
that grew up with the internet have come to understand.
If none of these are things Mozilla is able to do I would be happy to join a
fork or hear from developers interesting in building a truly privacy conscious,
while still usable, browser.
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