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Firefox to collect your (anonymized) search data (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 6 months ago by sverit@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] not_a_king@beehaw.org 30 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

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

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] jackalope@lemmy.ml 22 points 6 months ago

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

[–] drwho@beehaw.org 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I used this fact a lot in arguments and I agree. What I'm saying is that it could be worse

[–] drwho@beehaw.org 5 points 6 months ago

And I agree with you.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 months ago

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