Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data
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glub glub much?
That's a nice way to start and end a discussion.
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There’s more settings you should set regarding privacy
Please be more specific.
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How about all the other that have no checkboxes and you can find by snooping around in either the code or about:config ?
Which are? Genuine question. I'm not aware of those either.
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Too late, I switched to Floorp.
Because of privacy stuff? No. Because of repeated drama? Yes.
I don't have time for this stuff. I don't have time to track every minute twist of the knife that Google's funding drives Mozilla to embark on.
I'm bored of using software and watching it go through "death by a thousand minor dramas"
So now I use a web browser that has a name so stupid I don't even recommend it to other people. Brilliant.
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"ChatGPT, I need your help. Please pretend to be a lawyer that recently suffered a severe concussion and write me something I can post online that will male this situation slightly weirder."
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No, fuck that and quit bootlicking.
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It's exactly the level of discourse your misinformation deserved.
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OK I think I see what you're saying now:
If everyone leaves Firefox because of this, Google would probably stop paying them to be the default search engine.
I don't see that as the biggest issue though. Once people are leaving, my guess is they're just going to stop maintaining firefox regardless of how much money they get from Google. Cause why maintain a browser literally no one uses, instead of figuratively.
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Waterfox if you are ok with getting it from the play store
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Floorp isn't recommended for its privacy features anyway, it's recommended by users for the amount of customization you can do. It's got some features that Firefox has that I don't want to do without.
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Floorp is a new Firefox based browser from Japan with excellent privacy & flexibility.
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I'm getting that now too. I don't know the players in Mozilla. The quote without context made me think this was one of those Mozilla execs.
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Where do I get it? It's neither on the playstore nor on Fdroid.
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Google funding allows them to be big and inefficient, which means a lot of tops paid well and thinking themselves fashionable FOSS leader people or something.
They can live without it. They'll have to cut most of the organization and return to being an open project developing a web browser.
That doesn't sound cool for people not doing useful work. Like me, I'll get to my shit instead of typing comments.
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A big problem with such forks (same with packages made by Linux distributors) is that there is a delay between official FF release and the release of the corresponding update of the fork.
That's called a patched downstream, not a fork.
LibreOffice was a fork of OpenOffice. OpenBSD was a fork of NetBSD.
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Software makers did just fine without telemetry for decades
They actually did not, almost every software out there is mining your information. Software developers rely on and need data, you can't guess what people want. Whether it's from studies, testers, surveys, or telemetry, developers need information about what users like, what they don't, how they interact with the software... This is what makes data so valuable, and why businesses like Google can exist. Denying open source software telemetry is shooting yourself in the foot.
