I care about my privacy, though I like it's UI. Is it really as bad as some say?

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    1 year ago

    because that effectively make them an advertising company.

    Advertising online is incompatible with privacy, there's no reconciliation between the two. And whoever tells you otherwise, is an advertiser.

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      1 year ago

      Some people dont see it as a black and white issue.

      Does firefox lose its privacy status if it takes google money and makes the default search engine google search?

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        1 year ago

        Definitely yes. Firefox is not private as provided by Mozilla. You have to use a custom user.js to disable all the tracking, or install a Firefox based browser like Librewolf or Mullvad Browser.

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          Hence not everyone sees it as a black and white thing, because there will be a lot of people who would disagree with your statement to some extent.

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      Unfortunately there's ads in Firefox too, and they're opt out instead of opt in. I'm certainly not a fan of it, but outside of LibreWolf until servo becomes a thing I think should be right but we're stuck choosing lesser of multiple evils.

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        there's a huge difference: Firefox does not inject ads on the pages you visit.

        Anyway, I recommend to use Librewolf or Mullvad Browser instead of Firefox.