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Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by CapacitorSet on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @06:12PM (#15648595)
>In fact, Firefox has increased in the amount of unwarranted telemetry and "experiments" a lot in the last years

I can understand "experiments" (Pocket comes to mind), but what are you referring to wrt "unwarranted telemetry"?

Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by usernam on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @06:20PM (#15648643)
I'm not talking about Pocket.

I'm talking about A/B testing internal features exactly like Chrome, such as ip v4/v6 path preference, pipelining support, TLS faststart (and so on) according to a random cohort selection.

Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by rhelmer on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @06:53PM (#15648878)
While you can certainly turn off these sorts of features, I just want to emphasize that these are intended to make the product better, and Mozilla abides by a fairly strict privacy policy (when comparing to most tech companies at least):

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/

The intention is to ship features that people actually want, and to ensure that Firefox is actually working for people (not everyone can/will file bug reports or post on twitter or hackernews etc)

Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by usernam on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @07:17PM (#15649004)
Exactly like Chrome. I do not argue about the good intention behind.
Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by jhasse on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @03:55AM (#15650732)