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I'm unfamiliar with what you're speaking of. Can you elaborate?

• jeltz 5y ago
  He is talking about when Mozilla made Firefox send the browsing history of randomly selected German users to a company they had invested in, Cliqz. That is the by far biggest ethical violation of Mozilla and which, justifiably, still haunts them. That said both Chrome and Edge are worse.
  • ohgodplsno 5y ago
    Because this is overly broad and paints Mozilla in an unfairly bad light compared to how inconsequential this event was, here are the actual facts: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/74yo19/cliqz_and_mozilla_as_i_understand_it_and_metadrama/ https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/74yo19/cliqz_and_m... 1% of german users had anonymised data sent over.
    • jeltz 5y ago
      Browsing history is something which is very easy to deanionymize so I do not buy that defence. What they did was inexcusable, but again both Microsoft and Google are more evil. I run Firefox, but only as the lesser evil. Edit: 1% is 1% too many if you have a company which claims to care about the privacy of their users. Especially since browsing history is very sensitive and easy to deanonymize.
  • sneak 5y ago
    Nope, I'm talking about the telemetry that still exists in current Firefox that you can download worldwide today.
    • sfink 5y ago
      Telemetry doesn't contain browsing activity.
      • sneak 5y ago
        It doesn't contain browsing URL history. It absolutely contains browsing activity.
• sneak 5y ago
  Firefox has a bunch of telemetry enabled by default that phones home usage information to Mozilla without consent.