* Posts by Eric.R.

11 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jun 2020

Huge if true: If you show people articles saying that Firefox is faster than Chrome, they'll believe it

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TL;DR: Lying and propaganda works because people are suckers. Malicious brand abuse and scamming.

Solution: Stop trusting repeat offenders, easy.

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Re: Well it is pretty fast

Muh monoculture, nonsense, Firefox is more googled than most browsers.

This is a prime example of marketing speak washing over known flaws and privacy infractions instead of being honest and improving.

Which other mainstream browser is pushing ads, data mining, uuids, trackers and sharing with google, themselves, partners, sponsors, cloudflare, and other third partys? I dont think even chrome does all that. And no you cant turn it off with their 'controls', options get reset and the data mining and sketchy connections still go on, they are well aware but play coy and, will, not, fix.

Really, find me another mainstream mobile browser with google trackers and ads...

The ones who brought you Let's Encrypt, bring you: Tools for gathering anonymized app usage metrics from netizens

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Re: Your privacy is important to us

hmm... I wonder if the ISRG needs to be audited, imagine another 2015 IETF debacle if any of those culprits were invo... hol'up...

Brave takes brave stand against Google's plan to turn websites into ad-blocker-thwarting Web Bundles

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Re: Prior art?

I thought http2 could this sort of thing too, push resources etc.

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Re: no, you never are

wankable. pro tips should be avoided.

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Mozilla will probably implement this in firefox too after voting it through standards. They killed their own addon system and use chromes now, copied google on link tracking, worked on webrtc together - which i might add still isnt behind a user prompt for over a decade.

If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn't. Bad news: It's working as intended

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DoH is malicious imo, there may not be any truly private providers (as you mentioned nebulo). The default ones or ones at the top of most recommendations are all 'a bit off'.

Seems like another monetization scheme, mozilla even made a deal with usa isp comcast.

Interesting reddit thread relating to it:

https://old.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/ig47hz/multiple_apps_including_tiktok_use_dnsoverhttps/

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Re: trying to drive users away for years

"Firefox as far as I know is the only Android option"

which comes with google trackers shoved in and one of the worst privacy track records of any browser ever. Seriously?

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Re: Thought I missed something!

The privacy features are moot because it sends a browser id to Adjust, has other trackers (google admob, firebase, leanplumb) compiled into the app. Some reasons for the bad ui is it nudges you to collections, pocket/topsites instead of own local bookmarks, which are wired into activity-stream behind the scenes and uploaded for monetization. As if pocket being absorbed wasnt nefarious enough, we will have to contend with "Pioneer v2 data studies" as well, which is getting wired in and opt-outs probably fiddled with after users forget its there.

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If they were keen on privacy they wouldnt be jamming in trackers for starters (Adjust, Google AdMob, Google Firebase Analytics, LeanPlum) I dont know another browser thats this bad.

Then theres the ever growing telemetry infestation which you cannot really turn off. Pocket and Collections now wired into Activity-Stream spying which connects out even if you turn it all off. The UI nudges you to topsites and collections for data harvesting, monetization reasons.

They are all about monetization now, its not safe to keep using firefox.

Brave soz about coding snafu that sent search queries to affiliate links, insists practice is 'industry standard'

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Re: First Opera, now Brave ....

Agree, shame all this data slurping and telemetry has gotten out of hand. If only there was a way to go back to some simple payed model to stop our data being syphoned off. Yet they do it anyway, signed up to premium stuff or not.

Brave with their ads and suggesting affiliate links, Firefox sending browser id to tracking firms, giving browser data out numerous times (laserlike, lookingglass, cloudflare), MS Edge grabbing hardware ids..

You turn off the ads and recommends, but the data mining goes on underneath. The technology under the hood being focused on tracking and telemetry is insane, todays browser is a user data conduit wrapped up as a browser. 'Privacy' is the new 'Unlimited'.