brokenc0de

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The problem is, so called "anonymized" data is able to identify you (sometimes with very few data points required. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/24/researchers-spotlight-the-...). Mozilla advertises Firefox as the browser that doesn't track you, but that's just wrong (since FF has quite a bit of telemetry). And it's on by default, and since people who are new to the privacy mindset may not know about how this telemetry is on, it's sad how Firefox is still recommended.

Comment · 6 years ago

I will name drop Librewolf as the "Ungoogled Chromium" of Firefox-based browsers. However, the web itself is tightly controlled by Google, and for me using UG Chromium is the best bet. I've stopped caring about the browser monopoly and instead looked for ways to minimize my usage of browsers and the web in general.

Comment · 6 years ago

Because Mozilla doesn't care about the privacy of their users. If they did, Pocket would be easily disabled, and they would have zero telemetry (like Ungoogled Chromium).

Comment · 6 years ago

>choose independent tech

Yeah, and Firefox is a corporation that gets hundreds of millions of dollars a year from Google, whose CEO gets paid about $2 million a year.

I won't get into their politics, because frankly they shouldn't matter, but please actually start working on your browser, Mozilla. Ungoogled Chromium is eating your lunch.

Comment · 6 years ago

Apple's privacy marketing seems like just that. All of their proprietary software is highly suspect. And remember, the COVID-19 contact tracing APIs were built by both _Google_ and Apple. If Apple was so concerned about privacy they would have implemented the tracing APIs themselves for the iPhone and released the source code.