Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 4 months ago

What is Firefox supposed to do?

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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 4 months ago

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Firefox now collects data for advertisers. It's not actually scary, but there is a bigger problem.

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The support article explains the rationale.

Unchecked by default would render the experiment useless.

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