Firefox Focus: a privacy-focused browser that sends anonymous usage data by default.
Anonymous data is by definition not privacy-invasive. That's why it's called anonymous.
Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private browser for iOS
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Assuming you could sue, what is the motivation for this? If you dislike the ecosystem so much, jump ship to the #1 mobile ecosystem, Android. What am I missing? Apple popularity in the US is unusually high?
Apple's devices are hugely popular among higher-income individuals, especially in the United States. Benedict Evans has written that there are 650 million iOS devices in active use globally. According to App Annie, roughly 2/3 of mobile application revenues are through the App Store. The other 1/3 is Google Play. Considering how much consumers have invested in the Apple ecosystem across multiple devices, it's not rea…
> roughly 2/3 of mobile application revenues are through the App Store. The other 1/3 is Google Play.
Are there any indications of how much of that delta is driven by the availability of sideloading?
Re: Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private browser for iOS
#203It works well, but unsurprisingly, they screwed up privacy once again by sending data to some company ( https://www.adjust.com ) in the background: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/17/mozilla_launches_pri... Doesn't seem to be possible to turn it off (the instructions at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/send-anonymous-usage-da... : do not work, there is no such settings menu for "Klar by Firefox"?). Perhaps I…
If you use Klar then you have not yet received the 2.0 update. We hope to send it out pretty soon. Sorry the German market is unfortunately a little different in this case. Same product but with a different name. Silly reasons.
OK, but did this pre-2.0 Klar have the problematic telemetry/data collection without an option to turn it off?
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Apple gets away with it because they don't have a monopoly. There's a large variety of non-Apple smartphones and tablets you can buy. Microsoft's behavior was restricted because they were a monopoly. There were alternatives to Windows, but the court decided that they were sufficiently insignificant that Windows was effectively a monopoly. That changes the rules. Windows market share at the time was about 95%, Apple's…
Mike and others, do you realize how different the web on Android has become from the web on iOS? The gap between the web's abilities on the two operating systems is growing quickly. Grab an iPhone and an Android phone, and visit http://pwa.rocks You'll see very different behavior in Chrome for Android and Chrome for iOS because the latter is required to use WebKit. There are some really big problems with the present…
I'm not sure how that's relevant. Note that I'm not defending Apple, merely explaining why they can legally get away with behavior so similar to what got Microsoft in trouble in the 90s.
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Because of security, browsers are a huge vector of attack.
Then I guess we need to get rid of all the alternate browsers on Android, Windows, Linux, etc because they are all just ticking time bombs waiting to destroy your device.
They are. But Apple was the only company smart enough to control that on their mobile platform BEFORE it became an issue.
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I only see it supporting yahoo. I didn't try very hard but in the settings there is no way to change it from yahoo, which is really frustrating. Did I overlook something?
For now, the search engine depends on your locale. Mozilla has partnerships with different search engines in different geographies. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus/blob/49bda35aa3b9b9b...
oh wow, thanks.