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In this article on FLoC, the Firefox folks are quoted as saying “defaults matter.”
I couldn’t agree more.
So why’s Google your default search engine when you purport to protect privacy, Mozilla? (Surely it’s not the ~$0.5 billion they pay you every year.)
@aral do as I say, not as I do.
@aral Oh, it's worse than that. Mozilla pioneered the FLoC-like method of personal surveillance. You could say that they have acted as Google's skunkworks. If you are using vanilla Firefox then you're already FLoC'd by default, and it's hard to turn off.
Monitoring your browser interactions and then sending the data back to the mothership whenever the browser restarts (eg. an upgrade), with commercial partners deciding what statistics should be gathered, is what Mozilla has been doing in the last few years. You won't find much about it in their privacy blurb though. I think it's a dimension of why they have been consistently losing browser market share.
@bob Source? Also they aren't losing marketshare because of that. It's because Firefox gives users much less choice than Chromium does.
@aral Also appatently Firefox uses Google's safe browsing as well.
@blueberry @person @aral This is what I struggle with. What to use that has a balance of feature vs freedom?
@blueberry @jsparknz @person And that’s exactly what Google is banking on because they know 99% of folks won’t change the defaults. All they need are the defaults to be in their favour.