firefox is spyware

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Sun May 20 15:59:51 PDT 2018


Debian: notmuch-mutt

Nothing compares...


On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 03:02:52PM -0700, Douglas Lucas wrote:
> Well, speaking of Mozilla, Thunderbird has reached the point where I
> really want a new email client program...perhaps Mozilla being ad-funded
> is a big part of the problem? In thunderbird I get these glitches where
> graphics show up meaninglessly on my screen, perhaps derived from HTML
> emails or something.
> 
> Anyways, what's a good email program that can search emails very well,
> sort them into various folders by rules, and has some Enigmail type
> integration for GPG? Something that would work in the Debian world and
> maybe Arch Linux as well? And that would let me use my locally stored
> cache of like 5+ years of emails?
> 
> One of the problems I'm having with Thunderbird is something Cory
> Doctorow noted years back, when you have over half a decade of emails
> Thunderbird starts having problems showing them to you accurately when
> you're searching. You can't read the contents of old emails sometimes,
> in other words.
> 
> Program recommendations?
> 
> Douglas
> 
> On 05/20/18 13:24, juan wrote:
> > 
> > 	
> > 	every tiem it is launched it connects to self-repair.mozilla.org  and  shavar.services.mozilla.com, which are not only firefox spyware servers but are conveniently hosted by amazon-nsa.
> > 
> > 	you can find those two strings in the about:config registry and delete them
> > 
> > 	as far as I can tell, firefox scum does NOT mention the 'issue' here 
> > 
> > 	https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=how-stop-firefox-automatically-making-connections
> > 
> > 	 
> > 


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