The screenshot in the post shows also a "optin" property, set to "true". Perhaps that should be set to "false" instead?
But anyway, "optout" ought to take priority IMHO.
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#12I also noticed the same, having recently signed up for a firefox account (I'm a long time user, just signed up for the sync).
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#13Mozilla is ethically compromised at the highest levels. They’ve made a shift over the last few years from a scrappy, low-rent, nonprofit dedicated to helping the web to just another data mining tech company. Just try setting your Firefox browser to a blank page with no requests on startup and watching the Wireshark log if you think otherwise.
I think Mozilla's leadership honestly tries to be ethical, but their frame of reference is marketing. They seemingly think tactics that are only moderately scummy instead of flagrantly scummy represent a pro-user revolution.
The hell of it is that with the way ad tech has eaten the web, I'm not sure they're wrong.
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#14Mozilla is ethically compromised at the highest levels. They’ve made a shift over the last few years from a scrappy, low-rent, nonprofit dedicated to helping the web to just another data mining tech company. Just try setting your Firefox browser to a blank page with no requests on startup and watching the Wireshark log if you think otherwise.
What browser would you suggest instead? I feel a bit cornered, especially now that literally every alternative is based on chromium.
Good question. Other than Firefox, Webkit/Blink based browsers are pretty much the only thing usable on the modern web without crashing. That leaves ungoogled Chromium, which unless you're compiling it yourself (good luck) means just blindly trusting some random internet person for binaries. There's really no good answer at this point.
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#15Mozilla is ethically compromised at the highest levels. They’ve made a shift over the last few years from a scrappy, low-rent, nonprofit dedicated to helping the web to just another data mining tech company. Just try setting your Firefox browser to a blank page with no requests on startup and watching the Wireshark log if you think otherwise.
What browser would you suggest instead? I feel a bit cornered, especially now that literally every alternative is based on chromium.
What's wrong with Chromium?
It's a honest question. I understand you'd say that about Chrome, but I thought that Chromium being open source it isn't exactly in the same bag.
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#16Mozilla is ethically compromised at the highest levels. They’ve made a shift over the last few years from a scrappy, low-rent, nonprofit dedicated to helping the web to just another data mining tech company. Just try setting your Firefox browser to a blank page with no requests on startup and watching the Wireshark log if you think otherwise.
What browser would you suggest instead? I feel a bit cornered, especially now that literally every alternative is based on chromium.
What's wrong with chromium?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
What browser would you suggest instead? I feel a bit cornered, especially now that literally every alternative is based on chromium.
What's wrong with Chromium? It's a honest question. I understand you'd say that about Chrome, but I thought that Chromium being open source it isn't exactly in the same bag.
No resistfingerprinting, or any meaningful about:config entries.
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#18Mozilla is ethically compromised at the highest levels. They’ve made a shift over the last few years from a scrappy, low-rent, nonprofit dedicated to helping the web to just another data mining tech company. Just try setting your Firefox browser to a blank page with no requests on startup and watching the Wireshark log if you think otherwise.
Mind posting sources for your claims of ethical compromise?
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#19Much as I am a happy user of Mozilla products especially Firefox, incidents such as this makes me lose respect for the organization.
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#20Mozilla is ethically compromised at the highest levels. They’ve made a shift over the last few years from a scrappy, low-rent, nonprofit dedicated to helping the web to just another data mining tech company. Just try setting your Firefox browser to a blank page with no requests on startup and watching the Wireshark log if you think otherwise.
What browser would you suggest instead? I feel a bit cornered, especially now that literally every alternative is based on chromium.
This site suggests IceCat, Ungoogled Chromium, Iridium or Pale Moon: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/browsers.html
The also have a guide for enhancing privacy in Firefox