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Well, about the very same moment you see "Browse like no one's watching / Automatically block online tracking while you browse" app starts to silently send some
by drdaeman 9y ago
Well, about the very same moment you see "Browse like no one's watching / Automatically block online tracking while you browse" app starts to silently send some data to app.adjust.com and incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org.
If that's not controversial, that's at least ironic.
(Just to clarify: this particular behavior was observed on a version from a Play Store, not FDroid. And this was about 1.5 months ago or so. But I doubt things had fundamentally changed since then.)
- ams6110 9y agoHonestly, if you're browsing through your ISP or carrier's data service, you're not anonymous and people are watching. That point of view is the only way to operate.
- chairmanwow 9y agoAh. I see your point. I failed to consider the context of this application in particular.
- jopsen 9y agoCheckout the histograms: https://telemetry.mozilla.org/ https://telemetry.mozilla.org/ Do other vendors let you see their metric dashboards? And if you feel statistics of time to FIRST_PAINT invades your privacy you can disable telemetry reporting. You can also see what your browser collects in about:telemetry, but don't equate performance measurements with surveillance -- that's FUD.
- drdaeman 9y agoGosh. It's not about what's being sent, and why. It's about a certain promise^W marketing statement and behavior that at least partially contradicts it.