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Re:De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy by nocman on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @04:21PM (#31088489)
Yeah, I don't like that this is the default, but "Firefox literally sends your keystrokes to Google" could easily be interpreted by many people to mean all of your keystrokes (not just the ones typed in the URL bar).

It would have been better to say "by default Firefox literally sends every keystroke you type in the URL bar to Google".

In my opinion it is a user-hostile "feature", and should be pointed out, but not in way that could be so wildly misinterpreted.

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Re:De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy by benatkin on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @04:46PM (#31088846)
> In my opinion it is a user-hostile "feature", and should be pointed out, but not in way that could be so wildly misinterpreted.

I agree. I don't like a lot of what Mozilla does but I don't like Brave at all, so I'll gladly defend Mozilla against hyperbole coming from Brave. Brave isn't even a browser, so I just ignore it most of the time.

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