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Re: Firefox search update

#31

Post by beretguy »

lordofgibbons wrote: post #13

> We’re ramping up our efforts to enhance search experience by developing new features like Firefox Suggest, which provides recommended online content that corresponds to queries. So, they need to collect data about my search habits so they can show me relevant ads in Firefox Suggest? At this point why do I even bother using Firefox? I seriously might as well just use Chromium.

> I seriously might as well just use Chromium

Before you leave please give LibreWolf a shot. It’s a modified Firefox with “spying/tracking/etc” disabled.

https://librewolf.net/

Re: Firefox search update

#32

Post by flipbrad »

Historically it was always interesting and quite challenging legal work, reconciling some things a bit like this with privacy, lawful intercept and anti-remote-exploitation-tool (anti-trojan) laws, especially in Europe (think: the cookie rule, which goes beyond cookies and PII). Then again, more recently mobile apps and operating systems (on all platforms, e.g. desktop OSs) seem to be doing quite a lot of it, so maybe those legal concerns were overblown.

Re: Firefox search update

#33

Post by stuffinmyhand »

beretguy wrote: post #31
lordofgibbons wrote: post #13

> We’re ramping up our efforts to enhance search experience by developing new features like Firefox Suggest, which provides recommended online content that corresponds to queries. So, they need to collect data about my search habits so they can show me relevant ads in Firefox Suggest? At this point why do I even bother using Firefox? I seriously might as well just use Chromium.

> I seriously might as well just use Chromium Before you leave please give LibreWolf a shot. It’s a modified Firefox with “spying/tracking/etc” disabled. https://librewolf.net/

will do

Re: Firefox search update

#35

Post by TheFreim »

CaptainOfCoit wrote: post #15
lordofgibbons wrote: post #13

> We’re ramping up our efforts to enhance search experience by developing new features like Firefox Suggest, which provides recommended online content that corresponds to queries. So, they need to collect data about my search habits so they can show me relevant ads in Firefox Suggest? At this point why do I even bother using Firefox? I seriously might as well just use Chromium.

Only reason I still use Firefox is because of TreeStyleTabs/Sideberry, still nothing like it for Chrome so on Firefox I remain.

The Vivaldi browser has a similar feature (not open source unfortunately). I've used it for a while, I quite enjoy the tab and bookmark management sidebars.

Re: Firefox search update

#36

Post by beretguy »

jedisct1 wrote: post #23
CaptainOfCoit wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only reason I still use Firefox is because of TreeStyleTabs/Sideberry, still nothing like it for Chrome so on Firefox I remain.

Try Arc. You won't be looking back.

Why? It’s based on chromium anyways. Might as well use Vivaldi instead.

Re: Firefox search update

#37

Post by poszlem »

One thing that annoys me more than data collection is corporations pretending they do it for my benefit while "respecting my privacy." Stop with the gaslighting, it's absolutely insufferable.

Not to mention, the way the text is written makes me think it's ai generated and that makes it somehow even worse.

Re: Firefox search update

#38

Post by cflewis »

lordofgibbons wrote: post #13

> We’re ramping up our efforts to enhance search experience by developing new features like Firefox Suggest, which provides recommended online content that corresponds to queries. So, they need to collect data about my search habits so they can show me relevant ads in Firefox Suggest? At this point why do I even bother using Firefox? I seriously might as well just use Chromium.

Depends what you want. Chromium also has hooks back to Google so if you are really data conscious you’ll need to look to something like ungoogled-chromium.
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