Those aren't the only times FF wants to "phone home". Personally, what made me jump from FF to a fork of the same, is Firefox Suggest. To me, this is a disgusting feature. Firefox with this feature says to me, we, Mozilla, want to become more like Chrome/Google.
It makes me not want to share even the tiniest bit of information with Mozilla.
But if you want to turn it off you can here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-suggest
All of these anti privacy features, default enabled as they are, tells me something about Mozilla. Something you might not even want to think about.
If you're fine with sending to Mozilla everything you type into the address bar, then you probably don't care that much at all about privacy, which would be a shame, because privacy, online and offline, is nothing more and nothing less than a god damn human right.
>> but you can turn it off, doh
99% won't, because they don't know what's the point. Perhaps they're right.
But when they try to develop alternative funding mechanisms like this they also get attacked.
> All of these anti privacy features, default enabled as they are, tells me something about Mozilla. Something you might not even want to think about.
Their goal isn't anti-privacy, it's that they need alternate revenue sources. I'm fine with that.
>>> but you can turn it off, doh
Please don't misquote me. My parent post was polite and informative and to mischaracterise it ("doh") is unnecessary.
That's entirely besides the point.
>> Their goal isn't anti-privacy
That's sad.
>> Please don't misquote me.
Did not mean to but yes, I did and I apologize. Because that was rude of me to do so.
Which is why corporations should not really be able to decide for the 99%. I won't blame Mozilla for trying this in the environment where it's possibly their only way to survive. It's really quite telling Firefox Suggest is only available in the USA.
That ability is opt-in only. By default, Mozilla does not see anything typed in the address bar. One has to manually turn on "Improve the Firefox Suggest experience" in about:preferences. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-suggest?as=u&ut...