>On October 6, 2017, Mozilla announced a test where less than 1% of users downloading Firefox in Germany would receive a version with Cliqz software included. The feature provides recommendations directly in the browser's search field, for news, weather, sports, and other websites, based on the user's browsing history and activities. The press release noted that "Users who receive a version of Firefox with Cliqz will have their browsing activity sent to Cliqz servers, including the URLs of pages they visit," and that "Cliqz uses several techniques to attempt to remove sensitive information from this browsing data before it is sent from Firefox."[7]
The fuck was this shit? That's >9999 times worse than the Mr Robot stunt.
i can only guess someone infiltrated mozilla and is trying to destroy it from within. that shit would never fly in ten thousand years. the fourth german reich will rise and fall, leaving Earth under the scourge of the Manshonyaggers before this is a thing.
Austin Wright
(((Cliqz)))
Andrew Morales
I hate what they're doing with Mozilla/Firefox. But I just can't get used to Chrome(ium), Vivaldi, Opera, etc. I could get use to Safari, but then I would need to Hackintosh. Fucking WHY.tiff
Connor Campbell
did firefox or cliqz make any attempt to go into detail about these advanced sensitive information removing "techniques"?
Jonathan Lopez
I use multiple browsers, Firefox was always my favourite but fuck me, even just the look of neo firefox is disgusting, an abomination to the eyes, and then add onto it more & more ethics violations. They can fuck right off. I've been using pale moon, find it aesthetically pleasing, think there may be some memory leak issues with it but that's par for the course with browsers it seems.
Tyler Morales
sadly there's no alternative browser. all the firefox forks are retarded, unmaintained messes with memory leaks, broken/old out of date extensions and so on. and they'll never be more than that
the only real alternative is qutebrowser. it's that or firefox. i might switch to it eventually, but man treestyletabs is too convenient, along with a handful of other extensions. sucks that webextensios gimped them and made them buggy as shit, but it's still good enough for better or worse
Isaac Price
So long old friend.
Dominic Butler
There wasn't even an option to not install it? Was it just plain hidden?
Most of this crap can be disabled by disabling experiments in about:config. Had something recently where they installed an addon that would send data back to determine if the user had telemetry disabled. Let that sink in. They gathered telemetry on users who had specifically disabled it to see if they had disabled it.
Austin Evans
Just buy apple, mang. Guaranteed no hassle. You're not poor, right?
Caleb Nelson
What is Palemoon and Waterfox. Or use Edge fuck if I care.
afaik this ONLY happened IF you hadn't removed testpilot from settings
Dylan Young
it came from testpilot which you could have removed from the allowed to install list if you had a look in settings
Dominic Gutierrez
Mozilla/FF is non-profit in name only, they have been infiltrated by greedy self serving product managers and programmers who are so enveloped in ad-tech world they're blind to their sins.
daily reminder that comodo icedragon is still a better browser
Connor Price
This wouldn't have happened if the users had checked the software against the correct MD5 hash.
Logan Anderson
>all the firefox forks are retarded, unmaintained messes with memory leaks, broken/old out of date extensions and so on. Wanna run that by my Palememe again?
>i can only guess someone infiltrated mozilla and is trying to destroy it from within no infiltration needed. mozilla does that just fine by itself
Gavin Watson
>freetard complaining that his free lunch in fact isn't free kek, the absolute stat of npcs and poorpeople
Cameron Barnes
>money is more worth than time t.teenager poorfag
Ian Powell
I'd love to not use Firefox, but I hate everything about Chrome and the browsers based on it, from basic things like the way it displays fonts to the lack of customisation possible. Firefox is shit, but it's STILL the best web browser around.
i question why you have 8200 tabs open, or why you would need it, or why a browser not loading a tab into memory at all times would make it "good" in your eyes
Thomas Phillips
improve tab management hackintosh does not take long. most people arent paid $1400 per hour.
Sebastian Fisher
The point is that your browser can't handle it.
Evan Barnes
>far-left spotted the burger
Dylan Johnson
hi
Jacob Parker
Wtf is the appeal of pale moon, literally the worst browser since internet explorer before windows 7. It came pre-installed in a distro I tried out and its bars at the top took up half the screen for no fucking reason other than shitty design. Who tf would want to use that piece of shit.
