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Re:Firefox 41 will use less memory when running AdBlock Plus by BenjiBajing on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @11:25AM (#9812436)
Actually Mozilla analyzes and stores the user's surfing data to allow it's customers to direct ads to the user's preferences. I actually don't understand why so few seem to bother. I think it's a quite big deal. Same with these telefonica chat thing.
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Re:Firefox 41 will use less memory when running AdBlock Plus by Manishearth on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @03:12PM (#9814407)
Source?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-tiles-work-firef...

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/tiles/

Regular telemetry data. Not surfing data. And certainly not sold.

Hello doesn't collect data passively either; using the video chat can of course lead to data collection though I doubt it does (but you would have to assume that can happen for any non peer-to-peer service of this kind since there will always be a server side component which you can't verify)

Stop spreading FUD.

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