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If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now (www.fastcompany.com)
submitted 11 months ago by Frostwolf to c/technology
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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Mainly that Firefox has telemetry enabled by default and you have to go into the settings to disable it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Thank you even more!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

What's worse is that they use telemetry data to justify removal of the features. They say that only a tiny minority users use them but ignore the fact that most of the users of those features are power users who have telemetry disabled.