Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data
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The magic of forking!
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A FOSS browser has and never will require collecting user data.
This should not happen at all.
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Certain features certainly could be considered as doing that, such as:
- Firefox sync
- crash reporting
- add-on store
I certainly want those. And then there are others that I don't want:
- telemetry
- studies
- AI
My understanding is that this change is primarily motivated by a recent/upcoming law change in California that has a pretty broad definition of "selling user data" and this is less likely to be a fundamental change in how Mozilla operates. However, let's see what they come back with.
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I found something but it is for chrome. https://github.com/Xodarap/Paranoid-Browsing
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Do you have a source for that? I can't seem to find anything on their website, though judging by the past few release notes you're absolutely right.
Edit: found this video. Kinda feel like this should be a big red banner on the front page though.
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It lets developers target what to improve and fix instead of going in blind.
I'm sure they'll make do
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. Software developers rely on and need data, you can't guess what people want.
Why would I want software developers (particularly we've browser) to guess what I want? I will tell them what I want, otherwise they have no business serving it to me.
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How convenient for you.
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Is it? It seems to be maintained by a user named relan based out of Russia. It's just a few scripts to build it for F-Droid and basically just removes some proprietary stuff. It's not a fork, just a build script.
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I will tell them what I want
You might, but 99% of users will never take a step towards giving any feedback whatsoever.
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Yes, which means they don't want anything from them. Rather than seeing those people as nothing more than potential profit, just move on.
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Yeah, that video was what I was referencing
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Yes, which means they don't want anything from them.
And yet they're using the application. Don't you want the applications that you use to work better? This is what telemetry enables, the ability to give feedback without jumping through 10 hoops, creating an account, responding to a survey, or whatever other method you're thinking of to give feedback.
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I'm not going to enumerate them, mostly because I did not keep track of which one was on and which one was off before messing all of them up.
If you're curious, open "about:config" and search for "survey*.enabled", "collect*.enabled". Even with all settings disabled, some of them remains on, and they do cause traffic to the (documented) endpoints. -
The drama isn't exactly their fault. There are a lot of rich organizations that want them to cease to exist. Most 9f which want track you online and/or shove ads down your throat.
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A fair amount of drama is exactly their fault. Mozilla chose to increase management pay and fire people, Mozilla chose to flirt with ai, Mozilla bought an ad firm, and so on. It's not like someone was holding a knife to their throat.
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Neil doesn't need a chatbot with sparkles for that, he's plenty capable to take absolute piss himself.
