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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

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Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
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See what’s changing in Firefox: Better insights, same privacy. Stil a good choice? (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Innovation and privacy go hand in hand here at Mozilla…

Is this the time to drop firefox?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm not a fan of automated data collection, regardless of the reason. I see the merit, though, but I won't allow it. The post is very clear about the preserved anonymity of the collected data, which is good, and on how to easily opt out, which is great.

This statement, however, was a bit strange. Almost like they are being flippant on local laws. Since I know this isn't the case here, they should have phrased it different. (Emphasis mine)

Your search activities are handled with the same level of confidentiality as all other data regardless of any local laws surrounding certain health services.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They definitely could have phrased this better. I think what they mean is that their level of confidentiality meets or exceeds local laws.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

That's what I also understood. It's just an odd, almost incorrect, phrasing. Unless our understanding is wrong, and they actually mean that they won't follow the local laws if said laws require them to violate privacy.