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It's always the same reaction here: "use Firefox". Mozilla are in the exact same business and are collecting, using and selling your data. They literally bought several companies that click-track and included their software in Firefox with optional opt out. I guess as long as their ads are plastered on your way to work, you'll just repeat what you see there. Google bad, Mozilla good.

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What precisely is my Firefox install sending to advertisers? Can you point to an example? Which advertisers? Can I prove this by opening Wireshark? Can you point to it in the Firefox source tree?

Mozilla included an add-on called Cliqz, which was activated by default in 1% of downloads. They are a company run by marketing and sold as philanthropists. Which works very well, especially in the tech sphere.

1% of downloads in Germany specifically*. Not that it excuses the practice, but 1% of downloads in Germany is pretty different in scope than 1% of downloads globally.

I'm not against Mozilla or for Google or anything. All i'm saying is, just because there is a bad actor doesn't make the other one good. I see the same thing everywhere these days. In politics, in the tech sphere etc. People tend to view one as good and the other as bad. They're all bad and need to be held accountable all the time.

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