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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The thing is, I don't want Mozilla to be "really this shouldn't be called selling" my info either. This was my call to jump ship to a fork that doesn't give any data to Mozilla in the first place by adopting a downstream fork.

I probably already wasn't giving Mozilla any data to "not sell" in the first place, since I've got telemetry disabled and used about:config to strip out all of their non-browsing functions. But why trust a "probably" that also inevitably needs more attention when they roll in some AI assistant nonsense I don't want (or whatever) when I can just find a fork of their FOSS product that's run by people that don't want my data in the first place?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

That's kinda my feeling, too. It doesn't appear to be any worse than a year ago, but if you were already not impressed, this is not an improvement.