Firefox's AI Switch Is Off. Telemetry Isn't

jasonvorhe

> To be clear, I know that the AI kill switch does not claim to disable telemetry or advertising. Well, at least it's not the closing sentence.

jqpabc123

Just follow the money.

drnick1

There shouldn't be any telemetry in free software, end of. There are other ways to estimate the number of active users, e.g. through downloads and browser fingerprints. Mozilla does not need more money than it already has. Ladybird has shown that you don't need a huge team to build a browser from scratch, so clearly Mozilla isn't spending all the money it gets from Google for development.

userbinator

It's somewhat cathartic to go through the settings and JS parts, using the source as a guide, and rip out/disable all the spyware, which you can do even without having to build the whole thing from source. Since I do my content filtering at the proxy level, all I want is just a browser .

jamesjhare

water is wet the sky is blue

overflowy

I love Firefox but I don't understand why anybody would use it without a custom config like BetterFox[1]. [1] https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox

metalman

I cant stand firefox for browsing, and now rarely access the web through a lap/desk top and just usb transfer files I create onto my phone, from where they get sent via whatever service is required. The web is dead anyway, so any random browser is good enough,as the whole fucking thing is a giant scam me baby honey pot if anything and one of these days a bunch of mega scraper operations are going to get stuck to each other and litteraly catch on fire, which would be interesting, remember that?, interesting things, ha!, now the reaction is to look over your shoulder to see if anyone noticed you bieng had.

VCFundedGenYer

Vanilla Firefox is a swamp of user-hostile defaults, telemetry, useless AI features, and forced addons that try to upsell you. The most sensible way to get around this is to use LibreWolf or Waterfox. They aggressively rip all of this out.