Another Firefox feature I'll have to disable. Ffs focus on the browser not integration with Google.. SSO with entra is a PITA, but sure let's focus on sending more data to search engines
It reads to me like the idea is to avoid sending data to search engines?
They want to send more data, but spent time to reduce the privacy impact with this feature. Data is still going somewhere that is not my computer and Mozilla is trying to force it as the new norm. Not a needed feature nor a requested one
Literally every other browser does this, and it's a useful feature the vast majority of people.
Assuming the user is fine with sending data to the search engine they're using to make the search is a pretty safe assumption.
Firefox already did this since literally forever, and on every search engine they offer (with various featuresets ofc). This just makes it more privacy-preserving.
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