[kwlug-disc] et tu, Firefox?

[Jason]

Good YouTube channel I follow has a video up on it:

https://youtu.be/W3Yvv4EaTfs?si=0GVgj6Lr3sefkFcn

On Fri, Feb 28, 2025, 9:45 AM CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It's the talk of the town on Mastodon.  I found a short article outlining
> the changes:
> https://www.osnews.com/story/141813/mozilla-is-going-to-collect-a-lot-more-data-from-firefox-users/
>
>
>
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 at 09:34, Anton Avramov via kwlug-disc <
> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>
>> That is interesting.
>>
>> Chrome has obviously bad privacy, since it sends all kind of data to
>> Google. But chromium is the Open Source project and shouldn't send
>> anything. In fact since a few years back I can no longer even share my
>> google profile in Chrome with Chromium since it doesn't log me in.
>> Do you have some other information? Please, share.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> On Fri, 2025-02-28 at 09:16 -0500, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
>>
>> So in case you haven't heard, Firefox has changed their TOS from "we will
>> never ever never steal your data, ever", to "all your base are now belong
>> to us".  Primarily to train their new A.I. model, according to some sources.
>>
>> I have been a faithful FF user for years.  I can't stand Chrome/ium for
>> their poor privacy.  And obviously, I only run MS products while guns are
>> pointed at my head.
>>
>> And I hear that Brave is just a bad thing because their owner/founder is
>> a Very Bad Person.  And I tried Opera a while back, but I grew old while
>> waiting for it to load.
>>
>> So, I ask my KWLUG colleagues, what else is there?
>>
>> I'd really like to see strong add-on support in a browser, as FF has, for
>> things like BitWarden, uBlock, and possibly Privacy Badger, if possible.  I
>> would be willing to change away from Qwant search engine if necessary,
>> provided the alternative at least tries to protect my privacy.
>>
>> What are you guys doing for browsers nowadays?
>>
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