• mekhos
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    72 years ago

    Telemetry caused issues.

  • @const_void
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    52 years ago

    Please don’t become evil Mozilla…

    • @ZerushOP
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      2 years ago

      This has already happened since Mozilla sold its soul to the devil Google, part of the telemetry

      • @TheAnonymouseJokerM
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        122 years ago

        Well, on the other hand, did you give them the needed cash or donations? It is not like Mozilla employees can live on air and water vapour. And it is not either like Firefox has some Google spyware embedded into the code that you cannot remove.

        Firefox is the base for Tor Browser, and that is what it is.

        • @ZerushOP
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          -52 years ago

          You can make money online without surveillance advertising, it’s a very bad habit which put Google and his advertising companies (Alphabet, NEST, etc) in control of the network, making money with the privacy and security of the user. You can opt out of this surveillance, but only to request it directly in Alphabet Inc with your personal data, nice.

          • @TheAnonymouseJokerM
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            62 years ago

            But there is no tunnelling of data to Google happening, while you use Firefox? Firefox itself is not giving your data to Google. You can turn off Safebrowsing feature if you like, that is not spyware.

            • @ZerushOP
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              -22 years ago

              Yes, this you can do, but not the analytics and other APIs

                • @ZerushOP
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                  2 years ago

                  Most user can’t, apart this change nothing if you sync in Mozilla, a advanced user can modify the script in FF, but not in Mozilla. Simply download FF from Mozilla.org, Google profile you, also in the updates.

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      • @sexy_peach@feddit.de
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        72 years ago

        But they had the google deal for years, right? Was all of Mozilla bad over those years? I’d argue they did a lot of good as well.

        • @ZerushOP
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          12 years ago

          FF is a good browser without a doubt and one of those wich most respect privacy, but they must rethink their business model before the dependency of Google is a way without return.

          • @a_Ha
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            2 years ago

            limited and respectful advertisement from Firefox (or any free service) would be something i could tolerate and approve (as in NPR radio for example)

            • @ZerushOP
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              22 years ago

              Agree, but limited and respectful advertisements given by Alphabet are a oximoron. FF don’t select the companies which recive the data from Alphabet, selected by user activity. That is the sense of surveillance advertisings, if you enter in a page to consult for a good Hotel, after this you’ll see advertisings of Hotels, travel agencies and other nearby to you, if you don’t block them. But all these companies know that you are searching a good Hotel. Do you know how these companies protect this data? You don’t, and this is the risk, in the worst case someone knows that you are planning a travel and you are out of your home a given day. In the past it had ocurred several times the filtering of user data, among them medical and banking data in this way. Surveilolance advertising is a crime, not a legitim manner to create incommings, less for a FOSS which claims with privacy.

              • @a_Ha
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                32 years ago

                I agree : surveillance advertisings is the worst kind & i would not trust advertising from Google, so Mozilla doing business with Google bad news.
                Now, founding remains an open question