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Firefox starts monitoring keystrokes, adding adverts to address bar
Reclaim the Net ^
| October 9, 2021
| Ken Macon
Posted on 10/10/2021 3:57:58 PM PDT by Mount Athos
In the address bar, Mozilla is now displaying ads disguised as Firefox contextual suggestions for US users. The company claims it introduced the feature to “fund development and optimization.”
“Beginning in Firefox version 92, you will also receive new, relevant suggestions from our trusted partners based on what you’re searching for. No new data is collected, stored, or shared to make these new recommendations,” Mozilla said.
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: firefox; mozilla
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Looks like you can disable it in options, but active by default. I suggest brave or dissenter browsers
To: Mount Athos; rdb3; JosephW; martin_fierro; Still Thinking; zeugma; Vinnie; ironman; Egon; raybbr; ..
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posted on
10/10/2021 3:59:28 PM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
To: Mount Athos
To: Mount Athos
Not mine.
I froze it at V55.03
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posted on
10/10/2021 4:01:49 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
(Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
To: Mount Athos
Mozilla’s trusted parts may not be on my list.
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posted on
10/10/2021 4:03:01 PM PDT
by
ptsal
(Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
To: Mount Athos
No new data is collected, stored, or shared to make these new recommendations Translation: we've been spying on your every keystroke for a while but we finally found a way to sell it for some big bucks.
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posted on
10/10/2021 4:04:04 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
("Anti-fascist" is from the official name of the Berlin Wall: Anti-fascist Protection Barrier.)
Violation of privacy is perfectly okay these days..
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posted on
10/10/2021 4:04:05 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: Mount Athos
Dumped ‘ff’ months ago for Brave and startpage for search engine. Daily disk clean and malware clean is way faster with a LOT less garbage. Plus I’m earning bitcoins or something. 😂🙌
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posted on
10/10/2021 4:05:42 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
To: Mount Athos
They have had this for awhile now, you can just turn it off. Mine has it and it is version 86.0.
I cannot even fathom why anyone would install ANY browser and use it default without going through the settings first.
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posted on
10/10/2021 4:06:45 PM PDT
by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: Mount Athos
The very good advantage with Firefox is being able to addon “NoScript” and Ghostery”. Even Brave or Dissenter can’t match the security, privacy, and add blocking of NoScript along with Ghostery.
NoScript is THE ultimate blocking tool available.
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posted on
10/10/2021 4:13:21 PM PDT
by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: Mount Athos
I dropped Firefox last year.
Replaced it with BRAVE and really like it.
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posted on
10/10/2021 4:16:29 PM PDT
by
Howie66
(TRUMP WON!)
To: rktman
Mine’s DDG.
After Mozilla fired the only Christian conservative on their board, I never touched it.
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posted on
10/10/2021 4:20:37 PM PDT
by
max americana
(FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
To: Openurmind
Two stoopid to figger it out? Or two lazee. 😊🙌
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posted on
10/10/2021 4:24:32 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
To: Mount Athos
TOR Browser.
“.” < this is a period - nothing else ever when discussing politics
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posted on
10/10/2021 4:25:58 PM PDT
by
Eddie01
To: Openurmind
Why not run noscript in brave too?
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posted on
10/10/2021 4:25:59 PM PDT
by
for-q-clinton
(Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
To: Openurmind
And I just looked it up you can also run Ghostery in brave as well. So you can run both Ghostery and NoScript in brave.
:-)
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posted on
10/10/2021 4:28:23 PM PDT
by
for-q-clinton
(Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
To: Openurmind
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posted on
10/10/2021 4:30:29 PM PDT
by
for-q-clinton
(Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
To: Mount Athos
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posted on
10/10/2021 4:32:47 PM PDT
by
TianaHighrider
(God bless President Trump. Prayers for PDJT and his loyal supporters.)
To: Mount Athos
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posted on
10/10/2021 4:35:49 PM PDT
by
sauropod
To: rktman
Wish Brave had a “page view” and a back arrow (rather than new folder), for every tab/folder.
There are steps to enable, but they’re a PITA.
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posted on
10/10/2021 4:37:14 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
(What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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