[kwlug-disc] et tu, Firefox?

[Doug Moen]

> chromium is the Open Source project and shouldn't send anything.

Chromium sends a lot of information to Google. Details are in the documentation for the Ungoogled Chromium project.
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

On Fri, Feb 28, 2025, at 9:33 AM, Anton Avramov via kwlug-disc 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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