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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Firefox's stance on privacy, like Apple's, is to some extent branding. Arguably it always was. You should still use Firefox (or any other third party browser) if it works for you. Ecosystem diversity matters.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Firefox’s stance on privacy, like Apple’s, is to some extent branding

Some of the recently introduced Privacy related features -

  • Enhanced Tracking Protection
  • Total Cookies protection
  • Browser Fingerprint protection
  • DNS Over HTTPS support
  • Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) support
  • Continued Manifest v2 support
  • Copy URL without tracking parameter
  • Protection against redirect tracking
  • In-Built on-device translation

(Further options to harden Firefox via user.js or via about:config)

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

... and they're tracking your searches, collecting massive amounts of telemetry, and using pocket that collects and sells your data.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

All of which can be disabled.

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

Care to share the proof that Mozilla sells user data to anyone?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

We also share aggregated, non-personal data and related usage information, which does not contain any personal information which can identify you or any other individual user, with third parties, including content providers, website operators, advertisers and publishers.

https://getpocket.com/privacy#sharing

From the pocket privacy policy