Comment by kuschku

9 years ago

And this is the point where even the most Mozilla-supporting users move away. For me, this is it, I’m going to Chromium.

Fuck this shit, in the past months we had CliqZ https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785 ), and we had Mozilla say that, if we don’t trust Google, we shouldn’t use Firefox.

Fuck this.

3 comments

kuschku

programd 9 years ago

Regarding telemetry, take a look at the settings in about:config. There are several toolkit.telemetry.Ping settings which are set to true by default. In the spirit of charity I'm going to assume that those phone home pings - on startup, shutdown, update - are not enabled unless telemetry is enabled. But I have not checked...

bigbugbag 9 years ago

Alternatively you can give waterfox[1] a try.

Features

    Disabled Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)
    Disabled Web Runtime (deprecated as of 2015)
    Removed Pocket
    Removed Telemetry
    Removed data collection
    Removed startup profiling
    Allow running of all 64-Bit NPAPI plugins
    Allow running of unsigned extensions
    Removal of Sponsored Tiles on New Tab Page
    Addition of Duplicate Tab option
    Locale selector in about:preferences > General

[1]: https://www.waterfoxproject.org/

Danihan 9 years ago

Great points, thanks for compiling these..

I was using firefox because I don't trust google. ;(