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this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2021
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I don't think this is true. The Mozilla FAQ states that they only use telemetry data for product improvement.
Also, you're probably aware of this already, but Vivaldi is not open source.
Blacklight analyse Mozilla
You like or not, Mozilla make money with surveillance advertising, that is, with the user data. You only can oopt out from Alphabet request it in this same company which already has your data, but you are still tracked by Nest and by Google itself, as they say for "product improvement", Vivaldi ask the community and the user to do this, voting new features, there is nothing tracking you and selling your data., not even googleanaylytics. That is the difference betwen a US soft and a European soft.
Vivaldi make money with sponsored links and search engines, which include by default, but which the user can delete without problems if he don't use or wan't these. Apart with a little merchandising store. You can sync in the own Vivaldi server, encrypted end to end, Vivaldi itself can't access to your data, not even can restore data and password, if you lost your password.
In the beginning also Firefox was centered in the needs of the user, but nowaday it makes decisions in own interests, that is the reason because a lot of users leaved this browser and even the Linux communities pass more and more to Vivaldi, there are already two distros that include Vivaldi as the default browser, FerenOS and Manjaro, others will follow, if Firefox does not return to its roots.
It seems he used this url: https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=mozilla.com
The tool just analyzes the Mozilla webpage and have nothing to do with Mozilla Firefox web browser.
I noticed right after replying. However, It's still important to crumble the ridiculous attempt to stain Mozilla and Firefox.
Well at least it encourages people to debunk old bullshit. LOL
Dammit!
https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=mozilla.org
Firefox is a good privacy browser, except if you use the sync with Mozilla. Mozilla is sponsored by Google and send data to it and to Alphabet, it's a fact.
If you read my comments you will see that I have not said that Firefox passes your data to Google (at least not if you rule out Google, which is the default search engine). But if you need to synchronize your data and also if you download to Firefox from Mozilla, this data does go straight to Google. Firefox is a good and private browser, I myself use it as a second one, but not so much if you need to sync your data, then it is necessary to use your own host and not Mozilla if you want to avoid Google, this is the problem. I am not misleading, because I know that this putting all Chromium in the same drawer is deeply false, it is true that Vivaldi uses Chromium (Blink) as its base, but it is largely de-googled, leaving the rest of the Google APIs as an option for the user in the security and privacy settings. If I disable everything, I can't even download extensions from the Chrome Store, since it's not recognized as Chromium Browser, so it's the only API I have active. It is not a simple Chromium fork with a logo, like others, no data is sent to Google apart from queries about Chromium updates that goes through Vivaldi, where the devs gut it and then make it available in the Vivaldi update itself, neither by the browser nor by the Vivaldi sync server in Iceland, encrypted data where not even the Vivaldi team itself has access (if you lose your password, you lose your data , no recovery possible), no ads and no tracking, surveillance advertising, , like US Browser companies do, isn't the business model of Vivaldi
https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/a-dangerous-conflict-of-interest-between-firefox-and-google/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-google-keeps-paying-mozilla-s-firefox-even-as-chrome-dominates
Things like this happen when a company bases its income on third party investors (Google), it has to abide by their rules instead.
Certainly you are tracked if you use the default Google search, but even if you change to another search ther are remaining the Google APIs in FF, which you can desactivate in Vivaldi, but not in FF
I think you have read more than only the first lines of the links
Mozilla and FF are great in the past and FF is a good browser, but currently is a Google pet. Things which happens dealing with the devil, loosing independence. BS if you believe any other thing.