Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by GuB-42 on Monday November 29, 2021 @08:00AM
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> Finally, and this is a bit of a tangent, but I've never quite understood why Mozilla got such a hard time from users about telemetry.
That's the consequence of marketing themselves as "privacy first". Many people use Firefox because they don't want to be tracked, and therefore, any tiny bit of tracking/telemetry will be frowned upon. Google makes no such claim with Chrome, in fact, it makes it pretty clear that it tracks you.
That's the consequence of marketing themselves as "privacy first". Many people use Firefox because they don't want to be tracked, and therefore, any tiny bit of tracking/telemetry will be frowned upon. Google makes no such claim with Chrome, in fact, it makes it pretty clear that it tracks you.