• @[email protected]
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    305 months ago

    i know they’re a company and they need to float, but this should be opt in not opt out

    • @[email protected]
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      275 months ago

      Yes but we really should be grateful to have a somewhat mainstream open-source browser with a great ecosystem of extensions and ability to turn off the telemetry. It could’ve been much worse

      • @onlinepersona
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        5 months ago

        We should really be grateful Google is providing a mainstream opensource browser with a great ecosystem of extensions

        I see no problem with this logic.

        Anti Commercial-AI license

        • @[email protected]
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          55 months ago

          Chromium is pretty good too but usually it’s not recommended to support because nobody wants its engine to become an absolute monopoly and make all major websites in the world broken on any other one. Though nobody wants Firefox’s engine to become an absolute monopoly too so it’s nice that Chromium exists

    • @[email protected]
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      175 months ago

      Opt-in telemetry is useless telemetry, they make it opt-out because its the only way to get representative numbers

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        75 months ago

        Why do you need unwilling representing numbers in the first place? Just ask advanced users on the official forum about what they want to see added. You only really need error logs that are absolutely opt-in

        • The Doctor
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          195 months ago

          The number of people who actually change their default settings is quite small. Those of us who have these discussions are a distinct minority in the sum userbase.