Firefox to collect your (anonymized) search data

sverit@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml – 244 points –
See what’s changing in Firefox: Better insights, same privacy | The Mozilla Blog
blog.mozilla.org
92

You are viewing a single comment

i know they're a company and they need to float, but this should be opt in not opt out

Yes but we really should be grateful to have a somewhat mainstream open-source browser with a great ecosystem of extensions and ability to turn off the telemetry. It could've been much worse

We should really be grateful Google is providing a mainstream opensource browser with a great ecosystem of extensions

I see no problem with this logic.

Anti Commercial-AI license

Chromium is pretty good too but usually it's not recommended to support because nobody wants its engine to become an absolute monopoly and make all major websites in the world broken on any other one. Though nobody wants Firefox's engine to become an absolute monopoly too so it's nice that Chromium exists

1 more...
1 more...

Opt-in telemetry is useless telemetry, they make it opt-out because its the only way to get representative numbers

Why do you need unwilling representing numbers in the first place? Just ask advanced users on the official forum about what they want to see added. You only really need error logs that are absolutely opt-in

"advanced users" on forums are rarely very representive of users as a whole.

The number of people who actually change their default settings is quite small. Those of us who have these discussions are a distinct minority in the sum userbase.

I have not seen a single case where advanced users have the same opinions as the average one

1 more...