iceweasel

Posted Jul 31, 2022 11:19 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: iceweasel by brunowolff
Parent article: Living with the Rust trademark

Firefox can enhance defaults is probably always going to be true although newer versions typically do better there. However your statement that Mozilla thinks it’s ok to violate privacy isn’t supported by this.

iceweasel

Posted Aug 4, 2022 20:48 UTC (Thu) by brunowolff (guest, #71160) [Link] (2 responses)

For something more explicit, they are open about having telemetry on by default. Which means unless you know what you are doing, you are compromised before you can even opt out using the normal settings interface.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/telemetry-clientid

iceweasel

Posted Aug 5, 2022 5:27 UTC (Fri) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link] (1 responses)

"Compromised"? Care to explain why have you used such heavy word?

iceweasel

Posted Aug 5, 2022 13:51 UTC (Fri) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

I read "compromised" as a technical term. If you are a dissident in an autocratic country that bans the use of Firefox and the government has the means to pinpoint you by the telemetry traffic, the *fact* is that you are effectively *dead* before you can opt-out.