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Did/do they? I forgot about that. Do you have a source?
On first run it will open 2 pages on the Mozilla website, all of which embed Google Analytics and/or Tag Manager. Mozilla claims they have some special agreement that supposedly prevents Google from using this data for advertising purposes but if you actually believe it then I may have a bridge to sell you.
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>The suggestions are not relevant to "Relevant" is a code word for "we spy on your every move and also share your personal browsing behaviour with our many external partners to serve you relevant ads".
They don't do any of those things, according to the article. Perhaps you didn't read it.
For those who actually want to understand the feature, and its implications for privacy and data sharing, https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2021/09/15/data-and-firefox-su... is a starting point.
Everybody gets pissed off when firefox tries to move advertisement away from Google for some reason. Firefox recieves 100s of millions in advertisement revenue via Google yearly through the search bar. Firefox is practically 100% advertisement financed.
Meh, the feature is easily deactivable, the settings are clear and extensive. As far as ads go, it's one of the best implementations. Firefox still has no alternative in the privacy / user-centric space (don't mention Brave, I'm gonna get mad). Mozilla has done a lot for the web, I can give them some slack for exploring different revenue models. Still, I'm going to keep on eye for this kind of practices in the future…
Safari.
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> RELEVANT suggestions The fuck with this? How can they make _relevant_ suggestions without spying on my (s/browsing history/activity/), profiling it and phoning back to the mothership? (Edited, "browsing history" -> "activity")
According to the page that you apparently didn't read, it's based on the search text you typed and your city location.
Once enabled, Firefox Suggest sends what I type in the address bar to Mozilla. There it gets augmented with my location and makes its way to their "preferred partners", limited, for the moment, to a lovely establishment called "adMarketplace".
You don't see a slightest problem with that, no?
Reading through their "how Mozilla handles data" page [1] reveals absolutely nothing specific. What's collected, what's being passed on, etc. Just a bunch of hand waving and "don't you worry, everything is tip-top".
[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2021/09/15/data-and-firefox-su...
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I don't disagree, but it's still a somewhat partial failure. The others still do much worse.
cuisses de grenouille it is sir, coming right up..
Mozilla needs reform as an institution, it needs new leadership. But its raison d'être is still very much there.
Is it time to fork Firefox under a browser-focused organisation? I wish I could donate directly towards the development of Firefox to avoid this kind of deterioration, without funding Mozilla at all.
=> https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/
Iceraven is a similar (less mature) project for Android.
=> https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser
It would be nice to have a single umbrella project/brand, which could essentially treat Firefox in the same way Edge and Opera treat Chrome.
firefox continues to kill itself. it seems pretty clear now It's past the point of no return.
im hopeful brave fills the void. theyre the only company inelligently addressing the root issue with the web - advertising.