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[–] 16203908? ago 

On my laptop TOR operates through a Mozilla Firefox browser. But the latter recently took an enormous $$$ financial contribution from none other than George Soros. In exchange for the bribe Mozilla has agreed to help Soros meddle in what Firefox users can access online.

Does Firefox being compromised mean that TOR is therefore also compromised?

I realize that the use of Firefox I'm talking about here involves the use of Windows, and OP admonishes strongly against Windows. But many of us are not able to buy a new device and learn to use Linux immediately.

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[–] 16203924? ago 

But many of us are not able to buy a new device and learn to use Linux immediately

You've seriously never heard of dual-booting?

There is also the option of booting from an external drive or CD.

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[–] 16203910? ago 

No. Firefox is also secure and the OSF donation was nothing more than a generic 'push diversity and inclusion campaigns' more donation. Mozilla does not send data to third parties and besides that it is open source, which means the people behind TOR browser can modify it in any way they wish.

Firefox and Windows aren't related as it runs on Linux and basically everything else too.

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[–] 16204294? ago 

Mozilla does not send data to third parties

You're a fool. Firefox connects to a whole handful of IPs on startup and during use, including (((Amazon))), (((Akamai))) and (((Google)).

https://spyware.neocities.org/guides/firefox.html

Reminder that if you're not using uMatrix, you have ZERO security.

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[–] 16204088? ago 

Diversity will drag down the team. Some will leave and make other stuff great, but our only universal and open front end will suffer.

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[–] 16203911? ago 

Well the press release and news at the time said that Mozilla was committed to helping Soros & friends to censor "fake news" (and we all know what that means).

See the graphic with my post above that shows the SERPs.

But thanks a lot for the quite informative answer. I learned something new today, & feel better about Mozilla.. I know almost nothing about IT, and was completely unaware that Mozilla is open source.

BUMP