Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data
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Technically Firefox is operated by the Mozilla Foundation, and thunderbird by its subsidiary, MZLA Technologies Corp. This subsidiary also took over K-9 a while ago iirc.
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Zen had its latest release 5 days ago, and arc 4 days ago, so I have no idea what they're talking about.
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No, using Google makes Google money. That's why they pay mozilla to be the default.
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Arc. They are only continuing security updates and necessary maintenance. No more feature work, no more bug fixes.
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Arc. The browser company is continuing security updates, but has otherwise stopped all development
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Probably easier to go into the settings and untick a box to disable any telemetry.
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The issue is that Mozilla is actively hiding these settings. There's one (I forgot which one) that you can't find by searching for the title in the FF settings, you have to scroll to it yourself.
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maybe with anti-detection browser, there are with free-bee version, dont know if that will help . which basically lets you use proxies as well, and spoofs your fingerprinting. people who made of accts, or advertise on reddit uses these to evade reddit ban(until reddit made it harder to do so currently)
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google is probably thier number one customer for the data.
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reddit does the same thing to, to identify ban evaders, except reddit turned it up a notch in doing this. i think only anti-detect browsers can alleviate that
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vague to be exact, keeping it vague, so its up for interpretation on thier part, and they can use the vagueness as an excuse.
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And they're not going to pay millions to be the default for a browser that no one uses.
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Surprise Mechanics
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Even if Firefox is selling your data, its still 10x better than chrome since they allow uBlock Origin. Fuck chrome and fuck ads
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Fennec is maintained by Mozilla lol
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Google literally does pay Mozilla to make Google the default search engine in Firefox, its not some conspiracy, its a known fact.
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The issue is that Mozilla is actively hiding these settings.
They are under "Privacy", just as I expected where they would.
There’s one (I forgot which one) that you can’t find by searching for the title in the FF settings, you have to scroll to it yourself.
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Dude, I'm not talking about the specific settings you've shown. There's more settings you should set regarding privacy, and (at least a couple of months ago) one of them wasn't appearing when searching for it.
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Telemetry benefits everyone, knowing which features are getting used, knowing what parts are causing crashes... It lets developers target what to improve and fix instead of going in blind. I get that collecting data can be scary, because so far everyone has been busy selling that data. But there's a reason why data is so valuable, if it's properly handled and anonymized it benefits everyone using firefox.
