Firefox: The Data Collection, Advertising Browser

33 thoughts on “Firefox: The Data Collection, Advertising Browser”

• Sadly there is no real alternative, as all other browsers are even worse.

• I don't blame FF as I've never donated to them

• Isn't it opt out

• Bye Mozilla! This is how you destroy a company.

• Any recommendations for alternatives?

• Where are all the idiots to scream how the EUSSR cares about privacy? Should be pretty obvious they don't (and never did). The EUSSR loves suing US companies because it is how the EUSSR funds itself, and protectionism.

• Bait-and-switch. Many free/(F)OSS software starts out honorably, but then they reach a critical mass, and become Commie aholes. This applies to websites and services. Start free to hook everyone, then smack you with access fees and selling your data.

• No… it's not 'outlandish' – it's now business as usual…

• Trump 2024 , Christ is King

• As much as i would like to defend Firefox, the way things are presented here, there's nothing to defend about it, on the contrary rather anything to argue against their recent decision-making.
  Mozilla got infected with the known virus called greediness, and it seems that it strategically hit it exactly when it found a weakness when its previous CEO had its health issue and had to step back for a moment.
  The rest is just obvious, UNLESS any info in this video is not actually valid to the point that it changes things fundamentally, it still doesn't change the fact that, someone from the inside, basically helped threw away the previous CEO, might've even been their plan all along, the moment you are aware of this you know serious sh*t's about to happen and if you can see the pattern, their current CEO is either very dumb and just invests "buzzy" things and also will now start use the user's private data-based searches without protection, like anonymization and encryption which puts its users at risk.
  This is not what Firefox used to stand for this is "not Firefox anymore".

• I'm working on a solution to this, almost there, but not quite ready for the public yet.

• Firefox was slipping towards this for a while. While sad, it wasn't surprising. What I do, data stuffing. I have automation software that goes to different websites and spends a random amount of time on a site just to make all my data completely useless. There's no way to check the data to see if it's containing junk. If you can't escape spying, make their data worthless and/or waste their time.

• I'm updated to version 128. The "Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement" toggle is off by default. I already had the Data collection and Use category toggles turned off, and they still are. I'll keep an eye on it, and I have Privacy Badger and Decentralize installed. It has started out well behaved, though.

• This hurts. Firefox was the last bastion. 😢

• This reminds me of when AdWords introduced Geo segmentation down to the city level (like 10 years ago), you could then figure out confidently where every web visitor came from on low traffic sites. Along with all the other segmentations available, you could probably narrow it down to like a hand full of actual people.

• Oh man this is going to do many unpleasant things to home desktop Linux such as Ubuntu or mint

• Cadence is too smarmy. You have valid concerns but your style is one of a sensationalist, without care for pronunciation (mozza?) or spelling (purchace?).

• Thank you this video was informative and unfortunate. I wonder how badly the LTS releases borked from this.

• Librewolf Floorp Are firefox based but with more respect for the users.

• A couple months ago, I started noticing something that looked like compromised/slowed performance from FF. Been a FF user for ages. I guess it's time to say goodbye.

• One day we won't have any choice but to fall back on gnome web i guess

• Firefox has been dogshit for a few years now anyway.

• Then I will commit to Ladybird 🐞

• Just deleted it, many thanks.

• It is a pity to see some popular FOSS projects becoming somewhat akin to average user's Windows: trust in the product is lost, but the user is stuck with it, sometimes trying to clean it from telemetry and advertisements, knowing it's all in wain, because the upcoming updates will re-activate old garbage and add some new.

• Why do you keep pronouncing Mozilla as though it contained the letter T?

• o/

• Mullvad browser is cool! Its worth giving it a try
  Its firefox based but hardened for privacy

• There is no evidence, only your misinterpretation of what they're doing.

• nah, it's always been that

• Those data sent to advertisers are anonymised, right? Their waste of money if you turn on an adblock.

• Seeing Google search as the default is enough for me to see how unserious Mozilla really is/was🤷🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️😡

• The big split a few tpyrs ago was when a major shift happened at MO – ZILLA and Brave came about due to that

  The changes since are very bad and while the cro etcc get $$$ ppl like me that actually helped make it got nada

  That said while your info is good to have your massacuring of the pronunciation must stop it is MO ZILLA not MOT zilla

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