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0 pointsfreediver6y ago0 comments

Truth? I can understand 'unpopular', but 'misleading' without probably even looking at it?

1) This can be easilly reproduced.

https://twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/11658588961766604...

2) Over 95% of Mozilla revenue comes from Google for using Google as default search engine https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2017/mozilla-fdn-201...

3) https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#health-report - see first item

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kbrosnan6y ago

1) GA was removed from the first run page https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/7621

mthoms6y ago

Your link implies that Chrome is more respecting of privacy than Firefox. Can you show me a single reputable tech journalist or online privacy expert that agrees with this premise?

No, you can't.

Your bulleted points are widely known. Could Firefox be even more private? Of course. Would it be better if it didn't rely on Google for the vast majority of it's revenue? Obviously! Heck, even Mozilla itself freely admits that.

Is Firefox worse than Chrome at respecting your privacy as your link implies? That's plainly ridiculous. Even Google itself has never made such a claim.

freediverOP6y ago

I understand how it may imply that, but my intention was to simply point to facts as often times we believe what we are led to believe vs seeing the facts with our own eyes.

To me a business model entirely dependent upon one entity whose policies they are supposed to fight against exposes a fundamental flaw - and that is a fact. Mozilla can make a number of choices to break the spell and they decide not to. For something as important as this, do or do not, there is no try.

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