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Floorp, a Firefox Fork with an awful name, has moved some components inside a private submodule. (github.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit: They claim they will make that part open source too, eventually, and it is due to behavior of another browser: https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp-core/issues/62

Edit 2: They just open sourced the private repository 7 minutes ago, 2024-03-24T12:39Z

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I appreciate your detailed description of the probable benefits of telemetry. While I acknowledge there are benefits, however, before accepting a given set of telemetry, I would like to know with sources and in exact terms (not just 'improved UI') what enhancements were made to Firefox that couldn't be achieved without telemetry. I want to decide for myself if those features are truly important enough to justify sending my personal data to the developers. Only then can I make an informed decision, and it still wouldn't necessarily mean agreement. It's not paranoia; it's simply refusing telemetry for any reason given.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hear and understand you. There's absolutely no way you should just blindly accept Telemetry. But there are companies that deserve your faith until they fuck up. Mozilla is one of them. It's also worth noting that they only keep Telemetry data for 1 year: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/telemetry-clientid#:~:text=Firefox%20collects%20telemetry%20data%20by,interaction%20data%20and%20technical%20data.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Curious, do you have some extension that makes Firefox support #:~:text?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did the link not work for you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The link always works but doesn't navigate to the text fragment. Not until October's Firefox 131, at least.