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Firefox is not immune to this behavior. Please look up the preference "experiments.enabled" before recommending blindly. In fact, Firefox has increased in the

Firefox is not immune to this behavior. Please look up the preference "experiments.enabled" before recommending blindly. In fact, Firefox has increased in the amount of unwarranted telemetry and "experiments" a lot in the last years, a direction I'm really not happy with. The main difference is that Firefox still gives you pretty liberal access to most internal settings, while Chromium is abysmal, if not ridiculous.

CapacitorSet 9y ago
>In fact, Firefox has increased in the amount of unwarranted telemetry and "experiments" a lot in the last years I can understand "experiments" (Pocket comes to mind), but what are you referring to wrt "unwarranted telemetry"?
- usernam 9y ago
  I'm not talking about Pocket. I'm talking about A/B testing internal features exactly like Chrome, such as ip v4/v6 path preference, pipelining support, TLS faststart (and so on) according to a random cohort selection.
  - rhelmer 9y ago
    While you can certainly turn off these sorts of features, I just want to emphasize that these are intended to make the product better, and Mozilla abides by a fairly strict privacy policy (when comparing to most tech companies at least): https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/ The intention is to ship features that people actually want, and to ensure that Firefox is actually working for people (not everyone can/will file bug reports or post on twitter or hackernews etc)
    - usernam 9y ago
      Exactly like Chrome. I do not argue about the good intention behind.
- jhasse 9y ago
  https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6mw1ld/firefox_tracks_users_with_google_analytics_in_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6mw1ld/firefox_track...
comatose 9y ago
can we set experiments.enabled to false? if so that's a severe difference, albeit a questionable default, there should be a popup on install, or at least a message on install

CapacitorSet 9y ago

>In fact, Firefox has increased in the amount of unwarranted telemetry and "experiments" a lot in the last years I can understand "experiments" (Pocket comes to mind), but what are you referring to wrt "unwarranted telemetry"?

usernam 9y ago
I'm not talking about Pocket. I'm talking about A/B testing internal features exactly like Chrome, such as ip v4/v6 path preference, pipelining support, TLS faststart (and so on) according to a random cohort selection.
- rhelmer 9y ago
  While you can certainly turn off these sorts of features, I just want to emphasize that these are intended to make the product better, and Mozilla abides by a fairly strict privacy policy (when comparing to most tech companies at least): https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/ The intention is to ship features that people actually want, and to ensure that Firefox is actually working for people (not everyone can/will file bug reports or post on twitter or hackernews etc)
  - usernam 9y ago
    Exactly like Chrome. I do not argue about the good intention behind.
jhasse 9y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6mw1ld/firefox_tracks_users_with_google_analytics_in_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6mw1ld/firefox_track...

comatose 9y ago

can we set experiments.enabled to false? if so that's a severe difference, albeit a questionable default, there should be a popup on install, or at least a message on install