I am just curious because I had it off for a long time but have recently started to opt back in because I am too lazy to report every single bug I encounter when browsing the web but I do want to see Mozilla improve Firefox.

  • Shortstack@reddthat.com
    2·
    1 year ago

    Firefox is the only thing I leave the analytics reports on, at least for things that give you that choice.

    I’ve been on the Firefox ride for a decade and a half and it’s been good to me(with the right addons anyway) so i help them out by letting them have that data.

  • Synthead@lemmy.ml
    31·
    1 year ago

    On a side note, I would appreciate it if it was opt-in. Ask when the profile is being set up. Don’t be sneaky about it. I understand that this means less metrics for Mozilla, but consent is more important, imo.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      01·
      1 year ago

      Yup, I would probably opt-in if that was how it was presented, but since it’s opt-out, I go out of my way to opt-out. Privacy should be the default.

      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
        01·
        1 year ago

        That’s where I am too. I’m usually quite willing to allow telemetry for an important project, but having to turn it off if I want it off just makes me not trust it. So I turn it off

  • N-E-N@lemmy.ca
    1·
    1 year ago

    Yea I leave it on. As others have said, I’m willing to donate some data in hopes it will help improve the browser long-term

  • SportsRulesOpinions@lemmy.world
    0·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, I have no idea what mine is set to, and the average user won’t either. Just messing with the settings is borderline power user stuff these days, when you factor in the general public. I did something with my settings the day I installed and I haven’t looked back.

    That being said, a lemmy sub for Firefox ain’t exactly a representative sample of the general population.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I don’t. I stopped fiddling with firefox long ago. The fact they kept rolling out privacy hostile features made them similar to chrome from my perspective. So I just used chrome for a few years as it was faster. In the last two years I got into Arkenfox and did the necessary for that, but it always felt to time intensesive, too easy to make a mistake. Now that mullvad-browser is available I use that as my daily driver.

    I have vanilla Firefox installed but I don’t mess with the settings and I barely use it. It’s mostly a backup. Mozzilla corporation lost my faith a long time ago.

    Mullvad browser is my go to for web browsing. I know they are not going to release some new data leaking feature overnight that I have to scramble to fix.

    Degoogled Chrome with different user profiles is where I log into services. (A profile for aws, cloudflare, Lemmy, power company, water, etc). I know Firefox containers are nice, but they don’t separate accounts as distinctly to my liking . I know Firefox also has multiple profiles functionality but the UI is very clunky and just harder to use then chrome profiles.

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Yes. 100%. When I’m browsing the internet I don’t log into anything. Mullvad browser is perfect for that. On Mac and Linux this is very easy to do. You can set it as your default browser.

        On Windows you have to go through some hoops to set mullvad that as your default browser, but I’m sure the team is going to come out with an official solution

        If there’s something going to be logging into recurrently then I use un Google to Chrome and make a specific profile for that sit

          • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Mullvad browser

            • automatic updates
            • follows upstream patches quickly
            • based on Tor browser bundle, includes arkenfox features

            ** This means the browser works really hard not to write any state to storage

            ** it tries to be very ephemeral

            Librewolf:

            • manual updates
            • A bit slower to patch
            • based on upstream Firefox, but includes arkenfox features

            Both are good choices.

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      I’m confused by the downvotes.

      Mullvad Browser, Tor Browser, Arkenfox … Are all Firefox forks. Just without telemetry