Comment by Aurornis
9 months ago
> This is an extremely uncharitable view of Firefox and an outrageously generous view of Windows. The things you listed take 2 checkboxes in a new tab window, 2 checkboxes in settings (which has a search bar that takes you right to them by just searching "studies" or "data collection"), 2 checkboxes in settings (search "suggestions"), 2 clicks (right click the pocket button and click hide)... The only tricky one is
It’s wild to me that this is being presented as if it’s not a big deal.
Shows how far the goalposts have moved in this conversation.
How big a deal it is depends on what you're comparing to. Yeah, at first, when I read his post, I was wondering if it was a joke or something, with so many checkboxes in different places. Then I got to the point about Windows and realized he's right: compared to Windows, all those steps in Firefox actually aren't that bad, and actually stay unchecked unlike Windows which happily changes things back.
> all those steps in Firefox actually aren't that bad, and actually stay unchecked
Not really, they keep adding new checkboxes that are of course checked by default.
Source? You may be thinking of Windows.
Thank you. And I would even say that settings aren't really even in different places, they're all either on the Settings page or on the element in question. New tab settings are on the new tab page, and you disable the pocket button by right clicking the pocket button. Not exactly rocket science, especially compared to Windows.
It's not a big deal. They're easy to disable and easier to just ignore. It just doesn't matter in the way that you want me to panic over.