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Firefox doesn't get to wear the white hat if they're doing a bunch of shady stuff and saying it's for my own good. By your logic, realistically, Google invadi
by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Firefox doesn't get to wear the white hat if they're doing a bunch of shady stuff and saying it's for my own good.
By your logic, realistically, Google invading my privacy isn't a particularly big deal since they know the value of the data they're harvesting and will guard it. And third party data brokers are actually just making my web experience more tailored and relevant, so I should let them have their way with me too. Everyone has a good reason to cram something into my business.
- NegativeK 3y agoThere's an obvious difference between diagnostic data and data that's used to push ads to me. People might still object to diagnostic data and Firefox's handling of it, but it's disingenuous to state that they're the same.
- Firmwarrior 3y agoWhat is that obvious difference? It isn't obvious to me. They're both companies spying on people to improve their own products, ostensibly to the customers' benefit.
- kaba0 3y agoRidiculous comment
- Firmwarrior 3y agoEverything I said is 100% true. There are a lot of people on this very site working in adtech who don't feel like they're doing anything wrong at all and use the exact same logic that people use to justify "telemetry". In their mind, they're making a better product and a wealthier, more productive world in the process. You have literally no logical or moral delimiter between how Firefox spies on me to improve Firefox and how Windows does it or how ad companies do it. I'm sure you'll move the goalpost now and strain yourself to come up with something ex post facto, let's hear it.
- b59831 3y ago[dead]