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There. Is. Not. A. Single. Browser. That. Values. Your. Privacy.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Is it just me or is this video stupid af? You can easily disable all of the telemetry in Firefox. Like yea, no shit if you keep recommendations on, it'll collect data for that. How else would it recomend shit to you? Am i missing something here?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was hopeful that there would be less of these shitposts. I expect this bullshit on Reddit but I had higher hopes for Lemmy. I guess I'm naive.

[–] deweydecibel 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, yeah, what did you expect? People make shitposts, no matter what the name of the website is

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I just assumed there would be LESS shitposts, lol. But clearly that was wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Enrage to Engage with a side order of Cunningham's Law. Whether or not the content has merit, you'll hook a bunch of folks eager to argue about it in the comments and get a hit of that sweet sweet engagement.

[–] deweydecibel 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also, Mozilla is non-profit. They run on fumes because of it. As long as everything is disable-able, and it is, I'm happy to let them make some money so they can keep going. We need Firefox.

It's infuriating that this video calls out Mozilla's declaration that they respect user privacy, as if this contradicts that.

Respect is giving users options to do whatever they like and respecting their choices. Firefox does all of that. It respects you as the user and trusts you to control your own privacy by providing you the tools to do so.

Modern day software design emphasizes removing user choices so they're easier to corral. Firefox will straight up let you break it if you want. It lets spinoffs like Fennec exist. That is user respect.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yea. We really do need them. Like no browser is gonna make you 100% (or close to 100%) anonymous unless you use TOR (correctly). Even then idk. TOR is above my knowledge-base so I stick with firefox. It's really the best you're gonna get for reasonable privacy control. Of course I hardened it a bit and added a few extensions.

[–] Rooki 7 points 1 year ago

My favourite part is.... the context the data is collected. Its collected during you search or interact with firefox addons or Firefox sync.