A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team

Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by hutzlibu on Thursday August 03, 2023 @06:22AM (#36983807)

What you mean is telemetry, that is something seperately. And it is also enabled by default( and also annoys me, but less so).

But firefox studies means, (or can mean), that firefox will track you and sell that data to ad companies, if you "allow" it. Which everyone does, by default. This behavior from a "privacy orientated" company is close to a scam by me. Because a normal user who believes the privacy promise, won't know of, nor find these settings.

And apparently now there is a third setting(on Firefox mobile, but not on desktop), that at least openly tells you they share tracking data with a ad companies.

edit: ok, that is weirdly funny. "Adjust" the ad company firefox is apparently working together with, has a website, that does not really load in firefox at all, but only in chrome

https://www.adjust.com/

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Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by Tachyooon on Thursday August 03, 2023 @06:31AM (#36983876)

Selling data would be a bad move for sure. I can't seem to find anything when I search for it, do you maybe have a source I could take a look at?

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Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by hutzlibu on Thursday August 03, 2023 @06:39AM (#36983923)

If you have FF on mobile, take a look in the settings and look at "data collection" (or something alike, I have it as "Datenerhebung" in german")

There is a switch with "marketing data".

And as far as I understood, this thing came out of "Firefox studies". They branded it as experiments, but I have not seen a experiment not related to tracking.

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