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Yoric8y ago· 4 in thread

I love the idea. Would you mind mind filing a bug on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/?

One more idea - any chance you guys are making a Firefox Focus for the desktop? It's great on mobile, would love a desktop version too!

It's just a content blocker + private browsing. Can get same functionality on desktop with private browsing and some ad blocker

Yoric8y ago

(I should add that, while I work at Mozilla this is my personal view, not Mozilla's official view, yada, yada)

s17n8y ago· 3 in thread

Pretty sure Google doesn't circumvent incognito so what's the point?

Google certainly tracks people by their IP address, so your privacy is lesser with Google as your search engine than DDG.

ameliusOP8y ago

Not only that, but it also raises awareness of private search engines with the general audience.

s17n8y ago

Are you sure? I thought they didn't do this.

talmand8y ago· 1 in thread

Well, they could, but I would assume a contract with Google would prevent that.

Could. We don't know what's in this contract.

Their privacy-focused mobile browser, Firefox Focus, defaults to DDG.

That's a great idea, along with a message explaining why.

Though keep in mind it dates back to 2004.

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