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Mozilla's privacy-leading track record includes making Google the default search engine, running opt-in-by-default privacy-violating experiments, such as the Mr
by nulbyte 2y ago
Mozilla's privacy-leading track record includes making Google the default search engine, running opt-in-by-default privacy-violating experiments, such as the Mr Robot fiasco[1], and opt-in-by-default collaboration with advertisers[2].
I still use Firefox, but I try to stay aware of changes, precisely because of Mozilla's privacy-leading gaffe record.
1. https://itsfoss.com/firefox-looking-glass-controversy/ https://itsfoss.com/firefox-looking-glass-controversy/
2. https://www.pcmag.com/news/firefox-mozilla-data-collection-feature-sparks-privacy-concerns https://www.pcmag.com/news/firefox-mozilla-data-collection-f...
- legacynl 2y agoIf those are the only examples of privacy-tarnishing theyve done, I think that would speak for Firefox and Mozilla.
- mort96 2y agoThey literally have Google Analytics which sends telemetry data to Google integrated into the Firefox UI.
- smarnach 2y agoCan you substantiate this a bit more? Do you have a link?
- progval 2y agohttps://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/3145 https://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/3145 Worth noting that the comment closing the issue mentions: > You can disable Google Analytics in about:addons by setting your Do Not Track status to on. > Again: this only affects users who visit the page with Tracking Protection on (which automatically enables DNT) or who manually set their DNT status to on. but Firefox removed the DNT control last month (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1928087 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1928087), though it kept the Tracking Protection control and privacy.donottrackheader.enabled is still available in about:config.