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Android is now warning of Firefox sharing data (lemmy.world)
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Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.

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[+] 60 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)
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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    I know, right, the fucking balls of Google to fucking say this

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    Because they are legally obligated to mention it?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Are they? What law?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

    Probably GDPR if I had to guess. Seems like anything decent these companies do can be directly traced back to GDPR.

    Edit: guys, "probably" means that I'm unsure.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    No GDPR does not require google to display app permissions like that...

    Your just making things up.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Show me where I made something up, boss. Or do you not know what "probably" means?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Do you? Because made up satistics are still made up.

    This is how misinformation starts.

    If your not sure, google it before commenting. For the sanity of the internet.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    If your not sure, google it before commenting. For the sanity of the internet.

    No. Maybe don't just take something that someone you've never met on the internet said might be true as fact? Maybe you should fucking Google it.

    I mean seriously, the tone of my comment was pretty clear. Do you really need me to explain the connotations of "probably," and "everything good comes from it"?

    I make an off hand comment that is clearly not an attempt to be informative, and you come in all aggressive. Chill the fuck out.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    I'm not saying your doing it intentionally.

    Bur it is how it starts.

    Edit the person I replied to didn't use probably. Then you came in with a probably statement. That's how miss information starts. People supporting bullshit with "probably"

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This is not at all a pot kettle situation, there is no reason to warn about Firefox.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    There is: default search results on FF have always legally been sold to Google, the public didn't know since there were no terms of service or mention by FF whenever they uploaded the android version on the playstore that their users data would be collected and some be sold. Position is one of the data that may be sold as it could be used by Google to dermine which localised version of the search result is the best one to serve

    And it's not going to be Google in the future: it could be Bing, startpage, ecosia, qwant etc... As long as someone pays, then the results are sold and there needs to be a warning to users.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    the public didn’t know

    That's not true, for many years Firefox was basically financed by Google for being the default search engine, because Google didn't want Microsoft to monopolize Internet Browsers. Everybody who had the slightest interest knew that.

    But that's completely irrelevant, it's a very marginal source of revenue today, and Firefox does not sell user info to Google. So it's on Google to warn about using Google search.
    The only reason for the change in Firefox privacy terms was for clarification. For instance any information given to Firefox, does not grant Firefox ownership of it. (opposite of for instance Facebook)
    That's a guarantee of user protection, not the opposite. Firefox has a very limited scope of "using" user data, like for instance storing links with Firefox, so they work across multiple devices.
    There is no "harvesting" of user behavior or information.

    https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/mozilla-rewrites-firefoxs-terms-of-use-after-user-backlash/

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