Comment on Firefox 120 ships today with massive privacy improvements - gHacks Tech News
superduperenigma@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Firefox release notes: we improved the privacy of our browser
Chrome release notes: fuck you and fuck your fucking adblock
LWD@lemm.ee 7 months ago
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 7 months ago
Clarity is needed here. The California language that sparked all this is qualified with “about FakeSpot”. Meaning it could simply be third-party services that they send their own emails through.
After reading their privacy policy, nothing jumps out at me that contradicts this.
To be clear, I’m not a fan of the extension’s collection practices, but the down votes could be because this may be unwarranted fear.
SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Unwarranted fear or healthy skepticism? This is the perfect time to “just ask questions.” Firefox is selling itself as a privacy respecting platform and therefor should be held to a higher standard than the garbage that is chrome. If it can pass the test it will be proven again, if it fails then it deserves to be criticised. Point is if you are selling yourself as privacy respecting you are selling yourself by default as ethical.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 7 months ago
100% agree. I wasn’t trying to say the collection practice isn’t bad, just that the other linked threads may be taking things a bit farther than what the policy actually says.
LWD@lemm.ee 7 months ago
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 7 months ago
Because they are now owned by Mozilla. As stated above, I, like others, don’t like the practice, and I hope Mozilla adjusts acordingly.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Use LibreWolf, it’s Firefox without all the garbage like telemetry, Pocket or Sponsored Sites. It makes substantial privacy and security improvements and comes with uBlock Origin pre-installed.