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Firefox to collect your (anonymized) search data (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 6 months ago by sverit@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes but we really should be grateful to have a somewhat mainstream open-source browser with a great ecosystem of extensions and ability to turn off the telemetry. It could've been much worse

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

We should really be grateful Google is providing a mainstream opensource browser with a great ecosystem of extensions

I see no problem with this logic.

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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Chromium is pretty good too but usually it's not recommended to support because nobody wants its engine to become an absolute monopoly and make all major websites in the world broken on any other one. Though nobody wants Firefox's engine to become an absolute monopoly too so it's nice that Chromium exists