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Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony by ohgodplsno on Monday November 29, 2021 @10:12AM (#29380738)
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.

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Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony by jeltz on Monday November 29, 2021 @10:44AM (#29381106)
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.

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