78
See what’s changing in Firefox: Better insights, same privacy. Stil a good choice?
(blog.mozilla.org)
Drop it for what?
this post was submitted on 25 May 2024
78 points (80.0% liked)
Privacy
32120 readers
23 users here now
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
Related communities
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
~~Chromium ofc~~ Uhhhh WebKit I guess
Are we ignoring the part where you can disable it the same way you always could?
They even when out of their way to assure you if you already had telemetry disabled, absolutely nothing is changing for you and no data is being collected now.
Still hate default firfox build u cant disable telemetry in about: config. Gotta go with librewolf.
I don’t really understand what search topics have to do with improving the browser. The blog post doesn’t make that clear at all.
Agreed. If it was for a search engine, it would make some sense, but the browser, WTF for?
Because the lived experience of many users is the browser integrates with the search engine to give you predictive suggestions as you type, identify images, translate, etc.
That's cool, the thing is that Mozilla does not have a search engine. What's the use for them? Benchmarking other engines? Knowing engine rankings?
What you mention in your comment, they already do now.
I don't think they make a ton of sense. Just that there is some rational for a browser executive to talk about search engines.
Oh yeah, anything that can be potentially used to make more revenue will make sense to most C-suites.
I'm just glad there are still alternatives, but the degradation of quality of life for Firefox users just keeps dropping, and that is really sad.
Yeah, I genuinely think the Mozilla leadership resent Firefox.
This is my question as well. I am happy to leave it on if they can provide a clearer explanation of what my data will be used for, but for now it will remain off.
I'm not a fan of automated data collection, regardless of the reason. I see the merit, though, but I won't allow it. The post is very clear about the preserved anonymity of the collected data, which is good, and on how to easily opt out, which is great.
This statement, however, was a bit strange. Almost like they are being flippant on local laws. Since I know this isn't the case here, they should have phrased it different. (Emphasis mine)
Your search activities are handled with the same level of confidentiality as all other data regardless of any local laws surrounding certain health services.
They definitely could have phrased this better. I think what they mean is that their level of confidentiality meets or exceeds local laws.
That's what I also understood. It's just an odd, almost incorrect, phrasing. Unless our understanding is wrong, and they actually mean that they won't follow the local laws if said laws require them to violate privacy.