Chromium calls home even in incognito mode with safe browsing turned off

Re:Chromium calls home even in incognito mode with safe brow... by Confusion on Thursday October 22, 2015 @12:54PM (#10433287)

You should really read up on where Mozilla's money comes from. See the financing section of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation

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Re:Chromium calls home even in incognito mode with safe brow... by coldtea on Thursday October 22, 2015 @01:36PM (#10433569)

From selling its "default search engine" spot -- I'm on this web business professionally since 1995, I know that.

That's not direct ad sales and Mozilla wasn't created with the specific purposes to sell ads or collect private information, nor is owned by an ad-selling company.

Besides you can change the default search engine in a heartbeat.

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Re:Chromium calls home even in incognito mode with safe brow... by Confusion on Friday October 23, 2015 @03:10AM (#10437250)

I certainly consider that funding by direct ad sales. It's like any other affiliate model: your contribution is to get their product to be sold.

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