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• colordrops 4y ago
  Uh, just go into the settings? It's right there.
  • harry8 4y ago
    Uh. Just spell out your concerns and /why/ you need a fork to address them? Or provide a link that does so.
    • colordrops 4y ago
      Because I don't want browsing or other behavior data sent to a third party. Does that really need to be explained?
      • zamnos 4y ago
        We don't know what you're referring to. What you haven't is explained is what shady tracking you're accusing Firefox of doing, or what to turn off in the settings. Going into about:config and searching for "shady tracking" returns zero results.
        • colordrops 4y ago
          * "Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla" * "Allow Firefox to make personalized extension recommendations" * "Allow Firefox to install and run studies" * "Block dangerous and deceptive content" * "Pocket" add-on installed by default. I don't recall opting in to any of these things when I installed firefox. This isn't some conspiracy or hard to understand concept. They are right there in the settings page, not in the config flags, and I don't understand why it's so difficult to believe this or just look yourself.
          • harry8 4y ago
            We were interested in what you were talking about and now we know because you've actually said. That's the way this site is supposed to work. Generally considered a good thing when people are interested in what you have to say, putting barriers in the way seems less than an ideal strategy. So there are five settings that you believe are set to the wrong default. This causes you to mistrust firefox in total and want to use a fork that you deem more trustworthy but haven't mentioned any fork or how you decided that they are more trustworthy. That is all 100% totally and utterly reasonable and we can take it on board and use it to adjust our views or not now that we know what you're talking about. Thanks for posting it clearly that is worth the time it takes. The inital comment is mostly noise and in my view, not worth posting.
            • antiframe 4y ago
              I also have a different definition of shady than he's using. A setting clearly and prominently described on the options is not shady in by book, regardless of the default. Would I prefer Firefox had different defaults? Yes. But, I will reserve the word shady for the products actually doing shady things like telemetry in Windows that requires jumping through hoops to turn off.
              • account42 4y ago
                > I also have a different definition of shady than he's using. A setting clearly and prominently described on the options is not shady in by book, regardless of the default. It is shady because new settings appear with updates. Surely you don't expect users to trawl through all settings for each browser update to see if Mozilla didn't sneak anything in there that undoes part of their previous choices?
          • mulmen 4y ago
            Doesn’t Firefox ask about all these settings on install/first start?
            • colordrops 4y ago
  • kryptozinc 4y ago
    Source?
    • DangitBobby 4y ago
      First party: go to the settings and look.