liaizon, 10 months ago

"Mozilla is abusing Firefox Studies to distribute adware (again)"
https://cohost.org/DangerousDoctor/post/1785252-mozilla-is-abusing-f

liaizon, 10 months ago

"So even though a telemetry-disabling user explicitly tells Mozilla that they don’t want to “Allow Firefox to install and run studies,” Mozilla goes ahead and runs a study on telemetry coverage using their system add-on."

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/mozilla-does-not-respect-user-requests-to-stop-tracking-telemetry-data/

dragnucs, 10 months ago

@liaizon You need to look into something like #fennec
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/

I don't know if there is an iOS version.

lanodan, 10 months ago

@liaizon This is the kind of thing where honestly Firefox seems quite worse than Google Chrome.

bclindner, 10 months ago

@liaizon yeah, this is the dark side of the "Chrome is bring evil, just use Firefox" situation - Mozilla had a weird takeover in 2020ish where they had a "pivot to profitability" and now they're bloated as shit and do stuff like this. it's not quite Google level I'd say but it's pretty shitty

FWIW, forks like Fennec and LibreWolf disable this outright, and on iOS every browser internally has to use Safari's internal rendering engine(? unless that's changed) so I'm not sure it matters there

eonity, 10 months ago

@liaizon damnit Firefox, you were supposed to be the good guys!

boogah, 10 months ago

@liaizon Send usage data and Studies got flipped back on in Firefox Focus (iOS) for me as well. 😠