Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by jeltz on Monday November 29, 2021 @09:54AM
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He is talking about when Mozilla made Firefox send the browsing history of randomly selected German users to a company they had invested in, Cliqz. That is the by far biggest ethical violation of Mozilla and which, justifiably, still haunts them. That said both Chrome and Edge are worse.
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Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by sneak on Monday November 29, 2021 @11:55AM
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Nope, I'm talking about the telemetry that still exists in current Firefox that you can download worldwide today.
Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by sfink on Monday November 29, 2021 @01:49PM
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Telemetry doesn't contain browsing activity.
Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by sneak on Monday November 29, 2021 @03:12PM
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It doesn't contain browsing URL history. It absolutely contains browsing activity.
Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by ohgodplsno on Monday November 29, 2021 @10:12AM
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Because this is overly broad and paints Mozilla in an unfairly bad light compared to how inconsequential this event was, here are the actual facts: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/74yo19/cliqz_and_m...
1% of german users had anonymised data sent over.
Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by jeltz on Monday November 29, 2021 @10:44AM
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Browsing history is something which is very easy to deanionymize so I do not buy that defence. What they did was inexcusable, but again both Microsoft and Google are more evil. I run Firefox, but only as the lesser evil.
Edit: 1% is 1% too many if you have a company which claims to care about the privacy of their users. Especially since browsing history is very sensitive and easy to deanonymize.