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Firefox bundles Pocket and this, and these are irremovable, without maintaining one's own builds. Actually, Chromium's default install is better at respecting
by gkya 11y ago
Firefox bundles Pocket and this, and these are irremovable, without maintaining one's own builds. Actually, Chromium's default install is better at respecting my freedom than Firefox. This is incompatible with their mottos:
> Committed to you, your privacy and an open Web. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/desktop https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/desktop
> We make it Firefox. You make it your own. -- The features you love. The privacy you trust. Our most customizable Firefox for Android yet. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/
- sp332 11y agoHow is this unprivate or uncustomizable?
- gkya 11y agoI can't remove them as a user. I can't be sure that they won't add more of this third-party stuff. I can't trust their claims. This is like the case of online searches on Unity/Ubuntu. A non-essential, irremovable (non-destructively), annoying bit of software on my system.
- aibara 11y agoYou could always easily disable online searches in Ubuntu's Unity environment. And in 16.04 it's now off by default.
- gkya 11y agoIIRC it was not easily disabled when it was first introduced, the control was added after community reaction. However, I just included as another example. Further, I don't know the situation now, but IIRC you can't remove (i.e. delete the code, not disable) zeitgeist and online searches, keeping Unity, those are hard dependencies, even though non-essential.
- 21echoes 11y agobut the code does not execute unless you interact with it, as can be easily verified by inspecting source. move them out of your tab bar and never click them if it's a big deal to you.