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And this is the point where even the most Mozilla-supporting users move away. For me, this is it, I’m going to Chromium. Fuck this shit, in the past months we
by kuschku 9y ago
And this is the point where even the most Mozilla-supporting users move away. For me, this is it, I’m going to Chromium.
Fuck this shit, in the past months we had CliqZ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15421708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15421708, we had Mozilla adding new telemetry, we had Mozilla force-enable toolkit.telemetry.enabled, we had Mozilla say that, if you download Nightly, that is considered opt-in to tracking, we had Mozilla put Google Analytics into the Addons menu (because it’s loaded from addons.mozilla.org: https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785 https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785 ), and we had Mozilla say that, if we don’t trust Google, we shouldn’t use Firefox.
Fuck this.
- Danihan 9y agoGreat points, thanks for compiling these.. I was using firefox because I don't trust google. ;(
- programd 9y agoRegarding telemetry, take a look at the settings in about:config. There are several toolkit.telemetry.Ping settings which are set to true by default. In the spirit of charity I'm going to assume that those phone home pings - on startup, shutdown, update - are not enabled unless telemetry is enabled. But I have not checked...
- bigbugbag 9y agoAlternatively you can give waterfox[1] a try. Features Disabled Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) Disabled Web Runtime (deprecated as of 2015) Removed Pocket Removed Telemetry Removed data collection Removed startup profiling Allow running of all 64-Bit NPAPI plugins Allow running of unsigned extensions Removal of Sponsored Tiles on New Tab Page Addition of Duplicate Tab option Locale selector in about:preferences > General [1]: https://www.waterfoxproject.org/ https://www.waterfoxproject.org/