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you're missing a (you) and you wont get it.

A functioning brain.

>>827277

>>827279

Alright, sorry for triggering your sekrit club /tech/nicians, I'll be leaving.

>>827276 (OP)

It's a good version of a good browser. This board is just contrarian.

You've been conned.

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/firefox.html

>>827288

Complete bullshit.

>Phoning home

Disable Telemetry in Settings and it won't do that.

>Automatic connections to some websites you've visited, including their trackers

It loads the page to take a snapshot so it can show it. You can disable it in about:config, pin as many websites as you can, change your default page or just use uBlock like everyone does.

>"Safe" Browsing?

This is disabled through Settings. Those Google URLs in about:config are only settings for Safe Browsing. If Safe Browsing is disabled, no connection to Google is made.

>Firefox Health Report

Again, disabled through Settings.

>Anti-privacy search engines by default

Change your search engine.

>Pocket - a privacy nightmare

Pocket only records data if you save data to it (and you need to create a Pocket account or link your Firefox account for that.)

The Pocket logo is nothing but a glorified bookmark. See "Bookmarklet" for more information.

>Automatic updates

Can be configured through Settings too.

Firefox does not make any shady connections and everything can be configured through the GUI.

>>827302

>Disable Telemetry in Settings and it won't do that.

Wrong. Telemetry is disabled by default and the request is still made.

>Change your search engine.

Shouldn't need to if Firefox was all about privacy like the OP claims.

>Firefox does not make any shady connections and everything can be configured through the GUI.

But you just said I need to go into about:config.

Wait, you're just a shill, contradicting even your own post.

>>827304

>Wrong. Telemetry is disabled by default and the request is still made.

Telemetry and Health Report are enabled by default. These are the defaults. Disable them and no connection is made.

>Shouldn't need to if Firefox was all about privacy like the OP claims.

Irrelevant. Google is the most used search engine and what most users expect. Those who are wary of privacy or dislike Google can easily change it.

Firefox is thus far the only browser actively warning their users about tracking and privacy, as well as the only one to add anti-tracking measures such as Tracking Protection, Canvas spoofing and disabling JavaScript APIs used to track users (touchpad support, gamepad support, etc.)

>But you just said I need to go into about:config.

I didn't say that. You don't need to use about:config, you can either use the GUI or about:config.

>Wait, you're just a shill

There are these things called "opinions" and "facts." Not everyone you disagree with is a shill anon.

>contradicting even your own post.

I didn't contradict myself. Perhaps you misunderstood me.

>>827338

>classical theme

>IE8 icon lolwut

>font antialiasing turned off

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>>827337

What about the stupid WebRTC address leak? That you fix from media.peerconnection.enabled in about:config? What about the stupid browser.selfsupport.url default? Where in the UI can you set that to ""?

The problem ultimately is the privacy unfriendly defaults. With every new version you got to check the UI settings and about:config to play whack a mole with any new stupid thing they may have added.

i only came here to say that this shitty new version of Firefox ruined many of my long-time most appreciated addons

Session Manager in particular.

I'm glad i mainly use Icecat like any sane person should. But still find it, from a technical, commercial and logical point of view, to make this big change in this webextension stuff. It is absurd and a shitty movement from Mozilla.

>>827406

>It is absurd and a shitty movement from Mozilla.

Then you don't understand the technical or logical point of view of why this happened.

>>827414

EEE step two.

>>827439

It's a BBB decision yo!

>>827447

What does BBB mean?

Judging by the fact most posts here are fucking retarded, I see the smarter posters of /tech/ simply got fed up with browser threads and just started hiding them.

>>827466

I will do the same.

A functioning brain.

>implying government and (((government backer))) control of the internet is a good thing because reddit said so

>>827457

It's opposite to EEE step two.

>>827653

Doubt it.

>>827276 (OP)

"Don't be evil"

"The no-spin zone"

"the most trusted name in ____"

>>827711

And this garbage

>>827711

The excuse is that the data going to Google from Firefox analytics has no identifyable data. It is the tech paranoid who see "Google" and "analytics" who get a mental breakdown about spying and tracking conspiracies.