On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:23:07 +0200
Wolfgang Pfeiffer via Dng <dng@???> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 07:45:31PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >Oh my, I just wrote it:
> >
> >Browsers are hard these times.
> >
> >Mozilla did it again:
> >
> >https://blog.privacyguides.org/2024/07/14/mozilla-disappoints-us-yet-again-2/
>
> I just downloaded a fresh version of firefox 128 from
> https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest-ssl&os=linux64&lang=en-US
>
> Removed ~/.mozilla , ~/cache/mozilla from previous versions.
> Unpacked, started firefox 128
>
> One of the first two tabs that were opened after starting this new
> firefox was this page - please read it carefully:
> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/
>
> Big and fat we read:
> "By default, Mozilla processes your Firefox personal data to:"
>
> or
>
> "If you use these features, Firefox will share data to provide you
> functionality and help us improve our products and services:"
>
> Immediately any user concerned with his data would search around
> mozilla help and settings pages .. and find and switch off "features"
> like that "Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad
> measurement" setting. But is it a Mozilla fault if the user doesn't
> care? I doubt it ..

It is, it wouldn't be if the default was set to off and the user willingly
put it to on after having read the notice on the starting tab
inviting him to "Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement".

Ciao,
Tito

> >
> >I hope one day browsers will be developed with ethical integrity again.
>
> Like, a car seller who once might be forced by law to warn buyers of a
> car to better not check the fill of their car's gasoline tank with a
> lighter? And put him to prison if he doesn't warn and a customer blows
> his head off?
>
> Any OS caring about their user's safety is free to either disable the
> telemetry in firefox as a default setting or at least with the user's
> first startup of the newly installed Firefox load the mozilla intro
> page mentioned above.
>