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The title is misleading. Sending keystrokes isn't new. Both Firefox and Chrome have "keylogged" address bar tying for a long time to perform search suggestions. What's changed is that now Mozilla gets a copy too instead of just Google

(There's also the part about showing ads, which bleugh, but that's separate from the 'sending' part)

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"Firefox Now Sends Your Address Bar Keystrokes to Mozilla like it already did for Google but only if you had search suggestions turned on in the address bar" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

As others have mentioned[0], this happens even when search suggestions have already been disabled. I’m pretty disappointed over this, I’m not moving to a chrome based browser but I wish we had more options.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28805896

I dunno if I agree the title is misleading - it's right on the spot for someone like me - I always turn off search suggestions when I install ffx - for the privacy.

So this title is an important warning for folks who want privacy - and I would guess that a higher percentage of ffx users care about that than chrome.

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