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Is there no one with a clue at Mozilla? How much worse can they make this browser? If I wanted an auto-updating key-logging tool on my systems, I'd have sold m
by nanis 5y ago
Is there no one with a clue at Mozilla? How much worse can they make this browser?
If I wanted an auto-updating key-logging tool on my systems, I'd have sold my soul to Chrome already.
I had upgraded before seeing this ... In preferences, you have the following options:
> Allow Firefox to:
> --------------------------------------------------------
> [x] Automatically install updates (recommended)
> [ ] Check for updates but let you choose to install them
> This setting will apply to all Windows accounts and Firefox profiles using this installation of Firefox.
> --------------------------------------------------------
> [x] Use a background service to install updates
How about "don't ping home"?
For some double-speak, read the Manifesto: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
In a sense, they are very open about their goals, if you have read the classics by Kafka, Orwell, and Bradbury.
- ruined 5y agoif you want a vision of the future, imagine a background service updating a web browser, forever
- suprfsat 5y agoIs it actually key-logging or are you just making things up
- Taywee 5y agoThere is no key-logging, but there is some keystroke leaking in particular circumstances (specifically, typing in the unified address bar, by default, leaks the first word by pinging DNS repeatedly when you don't have spaces). Unfortunately, taking things completely out of context and editorializing the facts is par for the course. Discourse is getting very disingenuous.
- nanis 5y agoVersion 92[1] got one step closer. Extrapolating current trends, I shudder to think what will be in version 99. > Firefox will send Mozilla search queries (what you are typing into the address bar), and city-level location (what's nearby and relevant, determined from your IP address). Firefox also informs the service if you click on a provided suggestion. Combine this with "studies" which were never made public, extra avenues of telemetry that one finds out about waaaayyy after the fact etc, the last couple of years have seen Firefox become increasingly hostile to users. [1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/navigate-web-faster-firefox-suggest https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/navigate-web-faster-fir...
- Taywee 5y agoThat's not key-logging. That's search suggestions. If you find the privacy implications of search suggestions damning, you've always been able to turn them off. I don't like that level of telemetry, and I also dislike the "studies" and some of the other things they've pulled, but glibly referring to search suggestions as "key-logging" is disingenuous at best. It seems to imply that there's some nefarious logging happening that people aren't familiar with and can't disable.
- nanis 5y ago> referring to search suggestions as "key-logging" is disingenuous at best. Most regular users think you search for something on Google, it is between them and Google. This "feature" started sending one's incomplete queries to Mozilla as well. Every time user presses a key, search suggestions update, meaning every key user presses is sent to Mozilla before the search is even executed on Google. Upon upgrade, users where not asked "We would like to see every key you press while typing anything in the search bar. Do you give us permission?" > glibly referring to search suggestions as "key-logging" Yeah, I think I am going to keep glibly referring to sending every key-stroke to Mozilla while the user is constructing a search query or looking for a bookmark or a page in their browser history as "key-logging."
- rndgermandude 5y ago>key-logging tool But what is this accusation of key-logging now? Where did that come from?