Making connections to mozilla != collecting boatload of telemetry. Every function in that page is to download FULL lists of information. Not specific tracking items. You don’t gain a whole lot of telemetry/metadata on someone who downloads a new blocklist. Rather that say someone who checks a specific domain on a blocklist. further, the vast majority of things (virtually all of it) is configurable in toggles. And many options in here don’t even send mozilla anything at all (prefetching for example.)
Automatic connections != sending mozilla all your tracking information.
Chrome/Chromium isn’t evil either.
Hiding plugins that give google your hardware information when you visit any google domain without consent is pretty fucking evil.
Chromium based browsers (brave as an example linked above) ALSO had them present. It was only due to the new of this being a thing recently that brave (and probably others) made it disable-able (https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/24583 5 days ago).
Screaming “it’s open source” means nothing if nobody ever reviewed the code, and disabled the google spyware shit that they put into chromium to begin with. Remember the Chromium is still a google product.
I’d rather just Mozilla… You know… since they didn’t try to fuck me out the gate. I can accept “On by default, but we ask you during setup and you can access the setting at anytime” vs “Fuck you, you turned off all the telemetry but can’t reach the hidden add-ons we install without recompiling your own browser”. The mentality matters. I can trust the former to not screw me a bit more vs the latter rapist mentality.
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No, it is true.
Making connections to mozilla != collecting boatload of telemetry. Every function in that page is to download FULL lists of information. Not specific tracking items. You don’t gain a whole lot of telemetry/metadata on someone who downloads a new blocklist. Rather that say someone who checks a specific domain on a blocklist. further, the vast majority of things (virtually all of it) is configurable in toggles. And many options in here don’t even send mozilla anything at all (prefetching for example.)
Automatic connections != sending mozilla all your tracking information.
Hiding plugins that give google your hardware information when you visit any google domain without consent is pretty fucking evil.
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The hidden plugins I’m talking about are BUILT INTO CHROMIUM.
https://community.brave.com/t/hidden-extensions-in-chromium-source/557645
Chromium based browsers (brave as an example linked above) ALSO had them present. It was only due to the new of this being a thing recently that brave (and probably others) made it disable-able (https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/24583 5 days ago).
Screaming “it’s open source” means nothing if nobody ever reviewed the code, and disabled the google spyware shit that they put into chromium to begin with. Remember the Chromium is still a google product.
I’d rather just Mozilla… You know… since they didn’t try to fuck me out the gate. I can accept “On by default, but we ask you during setup and you can access the setting at anytime” vs “Fuck you, you turned off all the telemetry but can’t reach the hidden add-ons we install without recompiling your own browser”. The mentality matters. I can trust the former to not screw me a bit more vs the latter rapist mentality.
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