[HN Gopher] Firefox Now Sends Your Address Bar Keystrokes to Moz...
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Firefox Now Sends Your Address Bar Keystrokes to Mozilla
Author : xeorfuzzion
Score : 18 points
Date : 2021-10-08 21:57 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.howtogeek.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.howtogeek.com)
| chuckee wrote:
| I think this is the correct way of phrasing it. "Suggestions
| based on X" merely _implies_ that information on X is now sent to
| an (additional) 3rd party, and doesn 't state so explicitly.
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| In fact I would say the lack of explicit statements on what data
| is sent is a deliberate attempt to hide that fact from users.
| Note how similar the language is to the privacy options on
| Google's Android.
| rvz wrote:
| I don't think phoning home by default is part of the mission of
| being a 'Privacy focused browser'.
|
| Worse thing is Mozilla keeps projecting this empty message of
| 'privacy' whilst still continuing to be more than 80% funded by
| one of the most anti-privacy companies in the world who directly
| goes against their entire mission statement.
|
| This is hardly surprising.
| nanis wrote:
| I cannot overstate my disgust with everyone at Mozilla for doing
| this. This is the straw that broke the camel's back. I have been
| using Firefox begrudgingly every since the "studies" feature got
| unearthed.
|
| It seems to me there are entirely too many people feeding at the
| trough at Mozilla _and_ they are not managing their money very
| well.
|
| It seems like I am going to MITM our browser traffic and set up
| custom filters or something.
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