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Firefox to collect your (anonymized) search data
(blog.mozilla.org)
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this post was submitted on 14 May 2024
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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
I see no problem with this logic.
Anti Commercial-AI license
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