On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 11:23:07PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer via 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 ..

How much data would have been exfiltrated while the user was
reading the warning and looking for the option?

-- hendrik