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Re:Firefox 56: Last Stop Before Quantum by maxpert on Friday October 06, 2017 @10:42AM (#15417126)
Nice to see FF picking up momentum again. I don't want to use Chrome because I don't trust Google with my data (using Chromium right now). Can't wait to switch back, once it's GA.
Re:Firefox 56: Last Stop Before Quantum by DavideNL on Friday October 06, 2017 @11:42AM (#15417652)
Chromium also sends data back to Google... unless you use Ungoogled-chromium, but the latter has the issue of not being up to date (= missing recent security updates).
Re:Firefox 56: Last Stop Before Quantum by deltaprotocol on Friday October 06, 2017 @04:26PM (#15420147)
Re:Firefox 56: Last Stop Before Quantum by Diederich on Friday October 06, 2017 @11:24AM (#15417503)
Honest question: does Chrome share any data with Google, assuming you turn the right switches off?
Re:Firefox 56: Last Stop Before Quantum by DarkCrusader2 on Friday October 06, 2017 @11:33AM (#15417576)
> assuming you turn the right switches off

That's the problem. I shouldn't have to find the switches in the first place. Plus they constantly keep shuffling the settings around(on other google apps and android too) and I can never find the ones I am looking for.

Re:Firefox 56: Last Stop Before Quantum by milcron on Friday October 06, 2017 @05:07PM (#15420496)
Take a look at https://iridiumbrowser.de/

> Before Iridium Browser, we had to decide if we wanted to have cutting edge technologies like sandboxed processes, WebRTC, WebUSB … , or if we wanted to use a browser that respects our privacy. So we decided to use the power of free software and build a browser that can do both. We analysed the code of Chromium and stripped out the functionality which exposes data to others in a way we don‘t like. See most important changes here: https://github.com/iridium-browser/tracker/wiki/Differences-...

Re:Firefox 56: Last Stop Before Quantum by mozoldie on Friday October 06, 2017 @12:07PM (#15417895)
I would love to see some evidence for this. The privacy policy contradicts you, hence I would treat this as FUD in absence of actual evidence: https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/privacy/index.html#ser...

(Just make sure you don't sign chromium into your google account. If you sign into your firefox account in firefox, then data is also uploaded, albeit in an encrypted format.)