Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

Posted Jul 2, 2013 2:35 UTC (Tue) by fedtroll (guest, #91489)
Parent article: Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

Do the math. Firefox was FOSS a few years ago, and then Google infiltrated it. Google and Microsoft are $US billion dollar corporations. The latest Firefox is sending unknown (?) encrypted data to Google when I connect to my ISP: "Google Safe Browsing". I used to trust Firefox, but then I read how Google joined the Mozilla Foundation. I don't need "safe" browsing or the monster Google spying on my browser or OS.

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Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

Posted Jul 2, 2013 5:09 UTC (Tue) by kugel (subscriber, #70540) [Link] (3 responses)

Never heard of that, but it sounds like it could be the phishing protection. Try if it's still sending after turning it off.

Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

Posted Jul 2, 2013 5:19 UTC (Tue) by dtlin (subscriber, #36537) [Link] (2 responses)

This is not the first such comment from fedtroll.

https://lwn.net/Articles/555776/

Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

Posted Jul 2, 2013 6:07 UTC (Tue) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link] (1 responses)

I do appreciate that he's used such an accurate username. Its actually sort of inspiring. I wonder if lwn would let me change my username to let me better set expectations as to what to expect from my posts. Is there username "longwinded" still available?

Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

Posted Jul 2, 2013 8:37 UTC (Tue) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link]

Don't know, but "canonicalatemybaby" is.

Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

Posted Jul 3, 2013 9:30 UTC (Wed) by gerv (guest, #3376) [Link]

Just to de-troll: here's the privacy policy for the Safe Browsing service: https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/firefox3_privacy . The list of dangerous sites is regularly downloaded; Firefox does _not_ send the URL of every site you visit to Google (at least, not by default; we used to have an option to do that, not sure if we still do). Here's the code: http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/com...

Also, Google has not "joined" the Mozilla Foundation. The Mozilla Foundation is overseen by a board of 6 directors, as listed here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/about/ . It does not have institutional members.

HTH, HAND.

Gerv