Google and Mozilla Begin “Privacy Shaming” Users for Accepting Insecure Connections
Web browser giants Google and Mozilla have implemented practices encouraging users to take care of their online privacy and security in an ongoing shift towards data encryption. Google has begun informing users of the security of websites they visit, warning them when a site does not use an HTTPS secure connection. This is intended to have the effect of “encryption shaming” users from risking their data integrity on unsecure sites. Firefox, on their end, is stepping up measures to deal with insecure encrypted connections. The browser will block connections to HTTPS secure servers employing....
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Mozilla, the company behind the highly popular internet browser Firefox, recently started accepting bitcoins through Coinbase toward the Mozilla Foundation. The foundation and initiative look to help protect the open web, collecting donations for their cause. It's an interesting time to be witnessing the browser competition. While Google is taking a stance and working to bring internet connections to the entire world through balloons, Mozilla is working toward internet privacy and open technology. Each company maintains increasingly popular browsers but take it a step further for their....
Mozilla, the open-source development community behind the popular Firefox web browser, is now accepting bitcoin donations. The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit entity that provides support for the community's broad open-source development, will be partnering with Coinbase to accept bitcoin contributions. The California-based bitcoin services provider announced the deal on its blog, where it reinforced that, per its policies toward charities, it will not charge fees for the donations it processes. With the news, Mozilla joins the growing number of non-profit organizations that support....
On December 31, the software community founded in 1998, Mozilla, announced it was accepting crypto-asset donations via Bitpay. However, shortly after the announcement, a number of people complained about the decision the company made. A week later, Mozilla has announced it is backing away from digital currency acceptance for now and has “paused the ability to donate cryptocurrency.”
Mozilla Revealed Crypto Acceptance Last Week and Quickly Backed Away After Backlash
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Purveyor of an open web, Mozilla (known for its Firefox browser) is contemplating accepting bitcoins in its fundraising efforts. Reddit user taliesan -- who identifies himself as Geoffrey MacDougall, head of development at the Mozilla Foundation -- has been picking the brains of the Bitcoin community, asking for resources as the company researches whether to take donations in the cryptocurrency. "There are a number of people on my team advocating for it, as well," he said. First kicked off two days ago, the thread on the Bitcoin subreddit has received favorable reactions from fellow users,....
The company has decided to begin accepting PoS crypto again after an outcry against Bitcoin forced it to suspend such donations earlier this year. The company behind the Firefox internet browser Mozilla is attempting to appease its environmentally-conscious community by accepting only Proof-of-Stake (PoS) crypto donations.The company initially halted all crypto donations in January, but has now opened them back up after a review period to assess community sentiments and to conduct research on crypto energy usage.An update to our policy on accepting cryptocurrency donations. We got it....