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Re:Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014) by weinzierl on Friday December 07, 2018 @07:15AM (#18627014)
Cliqz is a company that primarily provides a Firefox based browser with privacy-oriented changes.

Their slogan is „The no-compromise browser. Cliqz gives you relevant search results and does not leak your private data.”

Sounds good on the surface, but what they really mean with „does not leak” is leak to Google. The Cliqz browser sends every keystroke in real-time to some supposedly Cliqz owned AWS instances. I verified that myself with Wireshark. They outright lie about this in their Transparency Cockpit: ”Telemetry data do not contain any information about queries, search results or visited URLs.”

Now Cliqz is owned by Hubert Burda Media one of Germany‘s largest media groups. Honi soit quit mal y pense.

I wrote a comment about this about a year ago[1] and also one about their relationship with Ghostery[2] more recently.

Hubert Burda Media is also one of the primary drivers behind EU link tax and upload filter legislation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15427992#15428104

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17159497#17161135

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Re:Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014) by freehunter on Friday December 07, 2018 @09:20AM (#18627838)
>Honi soit quit mal y pense

Is that considered well known enough to drop without a translation?

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Re:Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014) by xenophonf on Friday December 07, 2018 @09:58AM (#18628156)
It's notable enough to make it into the English Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honi_soit_qui_mal_y_pense

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