The Mozilla PPA thing was so named just to make it annoying to Google in a world where Ubuntu exists
@foone ah yes, the Mozilla PPA https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
@foone I think we've just run out of TLAs. A registry might help, but only if we could get people it use it.
IME, the young and the corporate have little care for the ISOs of the world. Ubuntu and Mozilla probably would have conflicted over PPA even with a registry. You can guarantee the youngs would ignore BSD's claim to FFS.
IDK, tho.
@foone the worst thing is mozilla recently started hosting their own apt repository for official releases.
WHICH OFTEN GET COLLAQUIALLY CALLED PPAs EVEN WHEN NOT HOSTED ON LAUNCHPAD.
@foone I read the proposal.
I think the hyperbole is a bit unfounded, IF, as the authors suggest, this is a prelude to enhancing tracking protections elsewhere in the browser. That will be important, and I'd like more concrete examples of protections they plan to implement before the experiment phase is over.
I'm not an expert on cryptography, but the proposal is at least not obvious snake oil. This is not even close to that "anonymous ad targeting" bullshit Google tried to peddle.