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Switching to a different default search engine is trivial. Removing pocket not so much...
About:config Pocket.enabled Set to false Seems pretty simple to me.
Are there two radically divergent subsets of HN users who hardly comment on articles about the other major browser?
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They're not lying, they're just missing the point. 1. I don't want recommendations, I didn't ask for recommendations. Having it as a feature that can be enabled for pocket-users might be defensible, opt-out isn't. 2. Even if they're somehow keeping your full browser history on your machine for processing (which is an irrelevant point anyway since it's often synced with your Firefox account anyway), the point is they'…
Interesting thesis but, 1. turn them off. Like any other application on the planet, you get some defaults and you turn on/off what you want, yourself, if what you want is different from the default. Settings => Home => Firefox Home Content. There's even a settings shortcut on the new tab view to take you to those settings, so turn it off first and see if you feel better now that you'll never see pocket ever again. 2.…
And it's not just me. You're saying that Mozilla is expecting all users to opt-out to protect themselves... from Mozilla itself. By Mozilla claims to be protecting those users...
2. you say it's not the antithesis of what they stand for but you've given no reasoning. Why is Mozilla compiling a personal profile of my browsing preferences not the antithesis of what they stand for? What have I said that isn't in line with the technicalities of how Pocket works? Does Pocket not compile a personal profile of my browsing preferences?
I'm sorry, I normally try to avoid combative tone on hn, but you've written quite a substantive comment all of which simply states that the points in my comment are incorrect with no reasoning behind those statements. It's not really logically cohesive...
Dear Mozilla, you have no business having my data in the first place. If you're promising to keep my data safe, things have already gone wrong.
Except they actually provide useful features like Firefox Sync. If you opt into that service it is impossible for them to provide it to you withouth having your data on their servers.
Your decision to show ads to your users this last week without their consent was the last straw for me. And believe me, I've stood A LOT from you. My relationship with you has been practically abusive. Farewell Mozilla, it's been real.
Where on earth are you going? Chrome? There are no other independent browser engines left besides Firefox, web browsers are a duopoly now and if you think Google is better on data collection and ads than Mozilla, I have a bridge to sell you.
"You decide what to share and when." That's demonstrably false. Disabling telemetry resulted in the collection of meta-telemetry, in violation of users' explicitly expressed decision to not allow collection of telemetry. https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/21/mozilla-wants-to-estimate-...
For 1% of the users opting out of telemetry. And anonymized. And also the data not being telemetry related. Technicaly correct, but pretending that this is mozilla going against the spirit of "decide what to share and when" is at best stretching it, and worst case willingly misrepresenting the case.
Dear Mozilla, you have no business having my data in the first place. If you're promising to keep my data safe, things have already gone wrong.
Curious, let me construct a bit of a straw man. Would you be ok with their data collection if that data was only interaction data? What features are you using, sans tracking features that may reveal who you are and what sites you visit? Assume for the sake of this question that it has been verified by 200 third parties to be the case. What about bug reports? I’m just curious if the line is “absolutely no data” or “no…
Unless, of course, I explicitly instruct the browser to connect there, which is unlikely, because I don't want anything to do with them or with their services.
Your decision to show ads to your users this last week without their consent was the last straw for me. And believe me, I've stood A LOT from you. My relationship with you has been practically abusive. Farewell Mozilla, it's been real.
Where on earth are you going? Chrome? There are no other independent browser engines left besides Firefox, web browsers are a duopoly now and if you think Google is better on data collection and ads than Mozilla, I have a bridge to sell you.
- Firefox (but fixed with settings that are hidden from the user for some reason)
- IceCat, Waterfox, Pale Moon, etc.
- Ungoogled Chromium, Iridium, Qutebrowser, etc.
Mozilla's actions (Cliqz spyware integration, ads in the browser, Google analytics in the browser, locked enabled telemetry, etc.) show that their "commitment" to user privacy is just marketing.
Your decision to show ads to your users this last week without their consent was the last straw for me. And believe me, I've stood A LOT from you. My relationship with you has been practically abusive. Farewell Mozilla, it's been real.
Where on earth are you going? Chrome? There are no other independent browser engines left besides Firefox, web browsers are a duopoly now and if you think Google is better on data collection and ads than Mozilla, I have a bridge to sell you.