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Every time people breathlessly relate the tale of Cambridge Analytica as the day privacy died, you should know they have no clue.

Because the Obama campaign built the exact same kind of dataset, using the same APIs, with the same overreach, 4 years prior, and Facebook knew about it and looked the other way. The campaign boasted about leaving the stone age Republicans in the dust. I guess the Dems don't look so hot now anymore after Iowa.

All of this is a matter of record. It was only bad when the "wrong" people pushed the wrong kind of propaganda, and the response was a massive push by the media to point the finger. Media, btw, whose websites too send your data to more than a hundred partners per site visit.

They all fixate on the scapegoat because otherwise they'd have to admit to being part of the problem.

That they then mix up the uncontroversial topic of privacy with the old hobby horses of diversity and equality is the final nail in the coffin. Mozilla is more interested in signaling their moral compliance with the current year rather than finding commonality on the greater topic of respecting privacy and thinking long term.

Oh yeah, where were any of these people when Stallman was scapegoated to absolve MIT of its Epstein sins?

R.I.P. Mozilla. It killed IE, and then hubris and brain damage killed it.