- Mozilla has launched a paid subscription service called Mozilla Monitor Plus, which monitors and removes personal information from over 190 sites where brokers sell data.
- The service is priced at $8.99 per month and is an extension of the free dark web monitoring service Mozilla Monitor (previously Firefox Monitor).
- Basic Monitor members receive a free scan and one-time removal sweep, while Plus members get continual monthly data broker scans and removal attempts.
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I got downvoted to hell for saying it before, but what Ubuntu and Firefox are up to together is kinda what Microsoft went to court over Internet Explorer for in the 90s.
Firefox is my go-to today, but I’m watching them closely.
Edit: typical fanboy downvotes. The writing is on the wall. Mark my words y’all. In 2035 you’ll be saying “get off Firefox” like you’re currently saying “get off chrome”. I’ve seen this song and dance before.
Also, look at this super cool not disgusting abomination of a bug that’s not a bug. Remap my fucking root directory?
Read on
Can you elaborate on the statement? I’m not connecting the dots.
Maybe it’s about firefox coming pre-installed in ubuntu, not sure either
No, they’re talking about how Ubuntu doesn’t let you uninstall Firefox, and constantly push ads for it down your throat, and how Ubuntu always opens web search results in Firefox regardless of your default browser, and how… Oh wait
So you don’t know how to uninstall Firefox on Ubuntu?
Where do these “Ubuntu ads” display in the operating system? Are you talking about the software browser? An application used to get software suggestions is suggesting software? Or something more nefarious?
To me, your post just says, “I haven’t used Linux much,” because I’ve never encountered any of these problems… but I’m always open to being wrong.
They’re being satirical.
They’re saying Ubuntu does those things then ending it with “oh wait… [they don’t! That’s what Microsoft does!]”
It was a joke, as the other guy said, i use linux as my main os anyways.
I also didn’t get they were joking, a /s would have been helpful
The worst part is the bug thats not a bug that remaps “/” to the Firefox spell check directory… Gross.
See issue here
I am not convinced that’s what’s going on. It looks more like some weird thing snap does to make hunspell available to snap Firefox.
Have you seen this behavior on your own Ubuntu install? In other words, can you reproduce the described scenario?
Yes. I literally have a cron job to unmount and rename my root directory to / that runs every 12 hours.
And how does that work? How do you unmount the root directory of a live system and invoke a script?
sudo umount /var/snap/Firefox/common/host-hunspell 2>/dev/null Sudo snap disconnect Firefox:host-hunspell 2>/dev/nullLike that?
It’s not unmounting my root directory it’s unmounting what Firefox mounted on my root directory.
That makes no sense. The bug listed shows the same device mounted to / and that spelling for in /var or whatever. And your system wouldn’t operate if / didn’t exist. I’m almost curious enough to go set up a VM to try to see what’s happening.
My working solution is literally running a Cron .sh which is
sudo umount /var/snap/Firefox/common/host-hunspell 2>/dev/null Sudo snap disconnect Firefox:host-hunspell 2>/dev/nullIf Firefox updates via snap, it will change back to bullshit. Is the case in every 22.04 VM I have on my machine as well. This script effectively gives me “/” back, and unfucks the rest of my machine.
It is a reason for me looking to leave Ubuntu after 12 years dedicated. Just because it makes no sense doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.
What stuff? Snap? The official flatpak? The official deb repository?
So you use chrome then? Or crypto-bro-wser?