:firefox: Goodbye, Firefox?
— @rwg
「 I’ve started to see privacy settings being reset every time I update Firefox. I set the default search to be Startpage instead of Google – an update wiped that and set it to Google, again. I set my homepage to not have Pocket or sponsored links – an update wiped that.
Pretty soon each new tab suggested I go to Facebook. Fucking Facebook 」
I think I’m going to stop using Firefox altogether. It was a tiny little weather app that did it. Firefox is no longer my default browser, and it has a sad face. I'm sad about it, too. So, one day I opened a new tab in Firefox and there it was: a weather report. A tiny little temp reading for my area. I didn’t think about it much, but someone on the fediverse noted that this little weather app is sponsored by AccuWeather, a company long criticized for its attempt to privatize public weather information. Hovering over the little temp reading revealed this to be true – it said, “Sponsored by AccuWeather.” And that broke me.
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#firefox #mozilla #privacy