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The Firefox Browser is a privacy nightmare on desktop and mobile
- rahuldottech 7y agoThis article is making this stuff out to be a way bigger deal than it is. The telemetry is basic, not hidden, and can be disabled with just a few clicks/taps.
- zwirbl 7y agoprevious discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22142104 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22142104 has some clarifying comments
- gwillen 7y agoThis is a kind of bizarre hitpiece. As noted on the previous post linked below: (1) Chrome -- the far and away most popular alternative -- is worse in every way, and (2) PIA, the company publishing the post, is owned by a (former?) malware purveyor: https://torrentfreak.com/private-internet-access-to-be-acquired-by-kape/ https://torrentfreak.com/private-internet-access-to-be-acqui...
- maverick74 7y agoYou can check everything that is being sent to mozilla at: about:telemetry and as you can see there is nothing that identifies you. And even if i'm missing something, you can always disable telemetry and be sure that (unlike others) firefox will respect your config and won't be sending any data