Over a decade of anti-tracking work at Mozilla

I joined the Firefox privacy and security team in 2016. For years, the privacy engineers here at Mozilla have known that online trackers use every identifier they can get to track and re-identify people all over the internet. Over the last six years, I’ve been able to contribute to Private Browsing, Tracking Protection, Containers, Monitor, Relay and other privacy features and products. In all that time, in the back of my mind, I always felt like we weren’t protecting all the major identifiers… yet. In October, we launched Firefox Relay p...[More]

Over a decade of anti-tracking work at Mozilla

I joined the Firefox privacy and security team in 2016. For years, the privacy engineers here at Mozilla have known that online trackers use every identifier they can get to track and re-identify people all over the internet. Over the last six years, I’ve been able to contribute to Private Browsing, Tracking Protection, Containers, Monitor, Relay and other privacy features and products. In all that time, in the back of my mind, I always felt like we weren’t protecting all the major identifiers… yet. In October, we launched Firefox Relay p...[More]

How we’re making Firefox accessible and delightful for everyone

I joined Mozilla in 2017 as an accessibility engineer and soon became the tech lead for accessibility. But for years prior, I was already deeply involved with the company. I co-created NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) in 2006, a screen reader for blind and vision impaired people like me. We wanted to make Firefox and NVDA work as well as they could together to provide everyone the best possible access to the web.  With NVDA, I helped change the world for a lot of people through a free and open-source screen reader. Now at Mozilla, I get to d...[More]

How we’re making Firefox accessible and delightful for everyone

I joined Mozilla in 2017 as an accessibility engineer and soon became the tech lead for accessibility. But for years prior, I was already deeply involved with the company. I co-created NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) in 2006, a screen reader for blind and vision impaired people like me. We wanted to make Firefox and NVDA work as well as they could together to provide everyone the best possible access to the web.  With NVDA, I helped change the world for a lot of people through a free and open-source screen reader. Now at Mozilla, I get to d...[More]

Pulse Joins the Mozilla Family to Help Develop a New Approach to Machine Learning

I’m proud to announce that we have acquired Pulse, an incredible team that has developed some truly novel machine learning approaches to help streamline the digital workplace. The products that Raj, Jag, Rolf, and team have built are a great demonstration of their creativity and skill, and we’re incredibly excited to bring their expertise into our organization. They will spearhead our efforts in applied ethical machine learning, as we invest to make Mozilla products more personal, starting with Pocket.  Machine learning (ML) has become ...[More]

Pulse Joins the Mozilla Family to Help Develop a New Approach to Machine Learning

I’m proud to announce that we have acquired Pulse, an incredible team that has developed some truly novel machine learning approaches to help streamline the digital workplace. The products that Raj, Jag, Rolf, and team have built are a great demonstration of their creativity and skill, and we’re incredibly excited to bring their expertise into our organization. They will spearhead our efforts in applied ethical machine learning, as we invest to make Mozilla products more personal, starting with Pocket.  Machine learning (ML) has become ...[More]

Celebrating Pocket’s Best of 2022

The run-up to December is always my favorite time of year at Pocket. It’s when we sift through our data (always anonymous and aggregated—we’re part of Mozilla, after all ), to see which must-read profiles, thought-provoking essays, and illuminating explainers Pocket readers loved best over the past 12 months.  Today, we’re delighted to bring you Pocket’s Best of 2022. This year’s honor roll is our biggest ever: a whopping 20 lists celebrating the year’s top articles across culture, technology, science, business, and more. All ...[More]

Celebrating Pocket’s Best of 2022

The run-up to December is always my favorite time of year at Pocket. It’s when we sift through our data (always anonymous and aggregated—we’re part of Mozilla, after all ), to see which must-read profiles, thought-provoking essays, and illuminating explainers Pocket readers loved best over the past 12 months.  Today, we’re delighted to bring you Pocket’s Best of 2022. This year’s honor roll is our biggest ever: a whopping 20 lists celebrating the year’s top articles across culture, technology, science, business, and more. All ...[More]

3 ways to use Mozilla Hubs, a VR platform that’s accessible and private by design

Credit: JR Ingram / Mozilla When NASA’s Webb Space Telescope team and artist Ashley Zelinskie wanted to bring space exploration to everyone, they chose Mozilla Hubs, our open source platform for creating 3D virtual spaces right from your browser.  Ashley told us that they “didn’t want to cut people out that didn’t have fancy VR headsets or little experience in VR. … If we were going to invite the world to experience the Webb Telescope we wanted everyone to be able to attend.”  That’s exactly why Mozilla has been investi...[More]

3 ways to use Mozilla Hubs, a VR platform that’s accessible and private by design

Credit: JR Ingram / Mozilla When NASA’s Webb Space Telescope team and artist Ashley Zelinskie wanted to bring space exploration to everyone, they chose Mozilla Hubs, our open source platform for creating 3D virtual spaces right from your browser.  Ashley told us that they “didn’t want to cut people out that didn’t have fancy VR headsets or little experience in VR. … If we were going to invite the world to experience the Webb Telescope we wanted everyone to be able to attend.”  That’s exactly why Mozilla has been investi...[More]

New phone? Give yourself the gift of privacy with these 5 tips

Credit: Nick Velazquez So you’ve unboxed a shiny new phone, peeled the sticker off the screen and transferred your data. If you’re reading this, you’ve made the smart decision to take another important step: Setting up your device for privacy and security.  Here are five steps you can take to help keep your data safe. Your future self thanks you. 1. Set up privacy controls on your new devices Do you know which apps know your location, track your online activity and have access to your contacts? Check your privacy settings to ...[More]

New phone? Give yourself the gift of privacy with these 5 tips

Credit: Nick Velazquez So you’ve unboxed a shiny new phone, peeled the sticker off the screen and transferred your data. If you’re reading this, you’ve made the smart decision to take another important step: Setting up your device for privacy and security.  Here are five steps you can take to help keep your data safe. Your future self thanks you. 1. Set up privacy controls on your new devices Do you know which apps know your location, track your online activity and have access to your contacts? Check your privacy settings to ...[More]

The best gift for anyone who wants to feel safer when they go online: Mozilla privacy products 

The holidays are a wonderful time of the year where we are happily shopping for unique gifts for loved ones online. It also means we’re sharing our personal information online like giving out email addresses or phone numbers to sign up for discount programs or creating new accounts. Whenever we go online, we are asked to give our personal information, which can end up in the wrong hands. Once our information is out there and publicly available it’s even tougher to get it back.  Here at Mozilla, a mission-driven company with a 20-year tr...[More]

The best gift for anyone who wants to feel safer when they go online: Mozilla privacy products 

The holidays are a wonderful time of the year where we are happily shopping for unique gifts for loved ones online. It also means we’re sharing our personal information online like giving out email addresses or phone numbers to sign up for discount programs or creating new accounts. Whenever we go online, we are asked to give our personal information, which can end up in the wrong hands. Once our information is out there and publicly available it’s even tougher to get it back.  Here at Mozilla, a mission-driven company with a 20-year tr...[More]

4 ways a Firefox account comes in handy

Credit: Nick Velazquez / Mozilla Even people who are very online can use some help navigating the internet � from keeping credit card details safe when online shopping to generating a password when one simply doesn’t have any more passwords in them. Using Firefox as your main browser helps take care of that. Want to level up? With a Firefox account, you can take advantage of the following features whether you’re using your desktop device, tablet or your phone. 1. See your bookmarks across devices To easily find your go-to plac...[More]

4 ways a Firefox account comes in handy

Credit: Nick Velazquez / Mozilla Even people who are very online can use some help navigating the internet � from keeping credit card details safe when online shopping to generating a password when one simply doesn’t have any more passwords in them. Using Firefox as your main browser helps take care of that. Want to level up? With a Firefox account, you can take advantage of the following features whether you’re using your desktop device, tablet or your phone. 1. See your bookmarks across devices To easily find your go-to plac...[More]

Over a quarter of parents believe their children don’t know how to protect their information onlin

Parenting has never been easy. But with a generation growing up with groundbreaking technology, families are facing new challenges along with opportunities as children interact with screens everywhere they go — while learning at school, playing with friends and for on-the-go entertainment.  We are previewing a new Mozilla Firefox survey conducted in partnership with YouGov to better understand families’ needs in the United States, Canada, France, Germany and the United Kingdom that we will release fully in January 2023. We wanted to hea...[More]

Over a quarter of parents believe their children don’t know how to protect their information onlin

Parenting has never been easy. But with a generation growing up with groundbreaking technology, families are facing new challenges along with opportunities as children interact with screens everywhere they go — while learning at school, playing with friends and for on-the-go entertainment.  We are previewing a new Mozilla Firefox survey conducted in partnership with YouGov to better understand families’ needs in the United States, Canada, France, Germany and the United Kingdom that we will release fully in January 2023. We wanted to hea...[More]

How to talk to kids about social media

Credit: Nick Velazquez / Mozilla Joy Cho is the founder and creative director of the lifestyle brand and design company Oh Joy! For two years in a row, she was named one of Time’s 30 Most Influential People on the Internet and has the most followed account on Pinterest with over 15 million followers. You can also follow her on Instagram and learn more about her work on ohjoy.com. I’m part of the first generation of parents of children who’ve been exposed to the internet since birth. I remember the days without cellphones, e...[More]

How to talk to kids about social media

Credit: Nick Velazquez / Mozilla Joy Cho is the founder and creative director of the lifestyle brand and design company Oh Joy! For two years in a row, she was named one of Time’s 30 Most Influential People on the Internet and has the most followed account on Pinterest with over 15 million followers. You can also follow her on Instagram and learn more about her work on ohjoy.com. I’m part of the first generation of parents of children who’ve been exposed to the internet since birth. I remember the days without cellphones, e...[More]