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What about when arrests begin to happen as google reports peoples browsing data (or more) to authorities as women look for ways to get abortions? Or are you of
by gentleman11 4y ago
What about when arrests begin to happen as google reports peoples browsing data (or more) to authorities as women look for ways to get abortions? Or are you of the opinion that “criminals should know better than to use tools like chrome”? Pardon the strong phrasing, it’s just a sentiment I see on here a lot, it’s not directed at you personally
- GuB-42 4y ago- AFAIK it didn't happen yet - Who tells you that Mozilla won't do it? - Criminal should know better than to use Chrome and Firefox, at least not without additional protection, and it includes disabling telemetry in both products. I am not saying that Google can't do anything bad to me, I just trust that they won't. Answering the other comment about Nest camera, I didn't see any example of Google actually handing out data to police without a warrant, they are just saying that they can. I already know that they can, what I want to know is what they did. I also have no real reason to fear Mozilla, and I left telemetry enabled. But I think that if you really want people to take your commitment to privacy seriously, "I collect data but trust me, I won't do anything bad" is not enough, I want that of course, but I also want technical commitment, and telemetry that is not strictly opt-in is a big no. For me, vanilla Firefox is not a privacy-focused browser (and neither are Chrome and Edge). For me the criteria is: would I use it to commit a serious crime? If the answer is "no", it is not private. It is not that I want to commit a crime, or that privacy=crime, but that's like a litmus test. In fact I didn't even look into it but TOR browser comes to mind, it is based on Firefox, but of course, telemetry has been removed.