Re:Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android
by jopsen on Friday August 18, 2017 @09:40PM
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Checkout the histograms: https://telemetry.mozilla.org/
Do other vendors let you see their metric dashboards?
And if you feel statistics of time to FIRST_PAINT invades your privacy you can disable telemetry reporting.
You can also see what your browser collects in about:telemetry, but don't equate performance measurements with surveillance -- that's FUD.
Re:Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android
by drdaeman on Saturday August 19, 2017 @05:01AM
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Gosh. It's not about what's being sent, and why.
It's about a certain promise^W marketing statement and behavior that at least partially contradicts it.
Re:Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android
by ams6110 on Friday August 18, 2017 @09:21PM
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Honestly, if you're browsing through your ISP or carrier's data service, you're not anonymous and people are watching. That point of view is the only way to operate.
Re:Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android
by chairmanwow on Friday August 18, 2017 @09:40PM
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Ah. I see your point. I failed to consider the context of this application in particular.
If that's not controversial, that's at least ironic.
(Just to clarify: this particular behavior was observed on a version from a Play Store, not FDroid. And this was about 1.5 months ago or so. But I doubt things had fundamentally changed since then.)