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Mozilla Stands Against Google's New Advertising Tech
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this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2024
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Do not know why you are being down voted, you are correct.
I am thankful Mozilla exists because it provides some choice but if you have to changed the user.js --a non-trivial action for regular end users-- or use a fork like Librewolf, or Mullad Browser or even Tor to maximise Privacy that should mostly come available as an easy opt-in setting out of the box, it educates me that Mozilla is not the angel fanboys would like it to be.
Also, their telemetry collection is not trivial either, even more so in their Nightly builds, which in fairness is sort of expected. Also, do not forget that FF has pushed XPIs to end users without their consent in the past.
Well, it might be the fanboyism hitting hard. I also like the fact that Mozilla / Firefox exists but it isn't the silver bullet everyone paints.
People speak very good thing about Firefox but they like to hide and avoid the shady stuff. Firefox is better than most, no double there, but at the same time they do have some shady finances and they also do stuff like adding unique IDs to each installation. I just see someone commenting "oh but download from the FTP and you won't be tracked"... seriously? Isn't adding an ID to the thing available on the installer that 95% people are going to use without opt-out or any warning crossing a line? There's no justification for this.
Firefox does is a LOT of calling home. Just fire Wireshark alongside it and see how much calling home and even calling 3rd parties it does. From basic ocsp requests to calling Firefox servers and a 3rd party company that does analytics they do it all, even after disabling most stuff in Settings doesn't fix it.
I know other browsers do it as well, except for Ungoogled or LibreWolf and because of that I’m sticking with them. I would like to avoid programs that need no snitch whenever I open them.