to me, it's very sad that firefox tracks search data : firefox

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I read Mozillas Telemetry docs and Privacy Notice, and the only search data they collect is the general topic, and only in the US. Just claiming they track all your search and use habits because there's telemetry at all is bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Can you upload and share a copy of your telemetry data or at least a copy of the search topics that have been associated with your Firefox browser?

I'm interested in perusing what kind of topics are collected.

Mozillas Telemetry docs and Privacy Notice

These both appear to be the same link, and neither of them mention "topics" or "search" as far as I can tell.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

That wasn't the point of OP's post. They're saying that people who want to opt out from this search data telemetry must also opt out of all telemetry, which means privacy conscious users will be under-represented in Mozilla's telemetry data (selection bias). This could lead to worse privacy-related decisions from Mozilla in future.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

As much as I appreciate Mozilla halting Chromiums complete stranglehold on the web. I even used to donate what I could to the project a while back, But they've also been fucking up so much lately I can't even in good faith recommend vanilla Firefox anymore.

But forks like LibreWolf still require Mozilla to stay afloat as they're not maintaining the back end only scraping the crud off the top.

So it's really starting to feel like a lose/lose situation.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh ffs, fuck you Mozilla.

Can't wait to finish my home server setup to give to family and friends, which includes PiHole and a few other things I can keep updated just to block shit like this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Don’t open port 53 to the internet.

Miss you /r/PiHole team.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's a small pihole community (300 odd) on Lemmy but I don't one how to drop a link to a community quite yet. Well, there's actually two but the second isn't gaining any traction.

I guess you were referring to the team though, which probably are not on here.

Fare well internet stranger!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks and happy cake day!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Thank-you!

[+] [email protected] -10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I agree. The recent organizational changes gave me hope, but in the end it turns out Mozilla is still Mozilla.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

They never change.