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That is the great thing about firefox, when I disable the telemetry which they make extremely easy to do. I can be certain that it is actually disabled. Unlike
by threwawasy1228 7y ago
That is the great thing about firefox, when I disable the telemetry which they make extremely easy to do. I can be certain that it is actually disabled. Unlike the shady practices Chrome uses where I never feel comfortable or like they are telling me the whole story. Hidden options and settings force me to not be able to feel safe using their product after an update. I have stopped using Chrome entirely over 3 years ago and have no tried it since. Too many shady and irresponsible practices at play there.
- techntoke 7y agoHow can you be certain about Firefox? They did disable all addons due to a "failed certficate update" and then proceeded to bash Chrome for 2 weeks about a fake story of adblocker addons being blocked, which turned out to be completely false, then they had two 0day exploits in 2 days. Same can't be said for Chrome or Chromium, which actually has video decoding hardware acceleration on Linux because they are more serious advocates for open source.
- dblohm7 7y agoTelemetry probes in Firefox/Gecko go through a common telemetry core that contains a kill switch. That code is located at https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/components/telemetry https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/compone.... Have fun.