Mozilla's slowly creeping in the surveillance with adding integrated crap like Pocket and AI driven Fake Spot. I'm really glad Librewolf's made a privacy focused fork of their browser without all that nonsense.

[–] menixator@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (17 children)

TLDR: Mozilla wants your data and it's opt out. If you're on FF 128 it's already on and you will have to turn it off manually. Shame how they have fallen this low. The LEAST they could have done is show a pop up announcement when the user upgraded to 128.

Also: +1 to Librewolf. Mozilla is definitely going to try more scummy crap like this in the future. Definitely the better option over Firefox.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I've read the announcement. Sounds reasonable and sufficiently private to me. So saying "Mozilla wants your data" sounds misleading and like an overreaction to me. Also might help to mitigate the arms race in privacy protection versus tracking for ads and worse stuff.

Mozilla is definitely going to try more scummy crap like this in the future.

How do you know that?

Even if, there will still be alternatives. But right now, Firefox is the best browser with regards to privacy and security. It even passed minmum ratings by the german IT security authority, contrary to other widely used browsers.

[–] SloganLessons@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Respectefully disagree. Reasonable would've been making it opt in, not opt out and justifying it with "would be too difficult to explain".

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

I'm with you on the opt-out vs. opt-in part. That's not a nice move. Regardless of that, Firefox is still the best choice. I hope they will continue to improve.

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