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Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier by woodruffw on Thursday March 17, 2022 @07:53PM (#30717158)
This isn't a landmine in any normal threat model. The average person is concerned with identity theft and perhaps their local law enforcement, not the full weight of domestic or foreign intelligence services.
Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier by car_analogy on Thursday March 17, 2022 @08:03PM (#30717219)
It may not concern the "average person", but it contributes to the omnipresent surveillance endangering the extraordinary people we rely on to keep an eye on our governments and corporations.

If we only care about the average person, we may as well have Firefox snitch to the NSA and their Russian, Chinese, Indian, etc. equivalents, plus Microsoft, Google, Raytheon, General Electric,..

Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier by ipaddr on Thursday March 17, 2022 @07:57PM (#30717190)
The average person fears the domestic intelligence service and is not as concerned with local police.
Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier by ashwagary on Thursday March 17, 2022 @10:19PM (#30718102)
The thousands of people a year murdered by local police (many of whom are unarmed and innocent) would probably disagree.
Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier by UberFly on Friday March 18, 2022 @01:56AM (#30719121)
You should at least attempt to use real statistics in your comments.
Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier by ashwagary on Friday March 18, 2022 @08:48AM (#30721492)
Nothing I said requires a statistic, it is common knowledge US police officers kill roughly 1000 civilians a year on average.

It is also clear from investigative reporting that many police departments have a long history of colluding with local coroners to cover up many additional deaths.

Colin Kaepernick didn't recently start a multimillion dollar fund to aid families of victims in getting secondary independent coroner/autopsy reports without reason.

If the fact that this is necessary doesnt terrify you or the people in your community, then I don't know what to say.

Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier by UberFly on Friday March 18, 2022 @01:11PM (#30724791)
Real statistics that aren't limited to your own jaundiced view of reality I mean.
Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier by ashwagary on Friday March 18, 2022 @02:07PM (#30725536)
I haven't seen reliable polling data proving the parent's or my claim. Either of us could be right.

Although, we also haven't seen tens of millions of people protest/petition to defund or reform intelligence services recently.

Without definite data, the fact that we've seen that urgency around local police reform seems like a decent alternate public sentiment indicator.

Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier by unnamed76ri on Thursday March 17, 2022 @11:10PM (#30718383)
you’re only off by whatever number of thousands over a thousand you are implying here.
Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier by Someone on Friday March 18, 2022 @04:11AM (#30719704)
I don’t know whether the OP was thinking of it, but world-wide, it is thousands (https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/police-ki.... Numbers “include those killed by security forces such as military police and intelligence agents”, but I think removing those would easily keep it ‘thousands’)