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Re: Firefox Now Sells User Data - Here's How This Affects Mac Users

From Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject Re: Firefox Now Sells User Data - Here's How This Affects Mac Users
Date 2025-07-08 15:22 +1200
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On 2025-07-07 23:30:00 +0000, Sam Coats said:

> DOWNLOAD THIS: <https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/?standalone=1>

A.  The post by "Marion" / Arlen is just more of the same old
    utter nonsense, lies, and misinformation troling that the
    braindead moron always posts.

B.  Even if it was actually remotely true, Google is still a
    far far worse choice for privacy.  :-\



> On 06/07/2025 16:14, Marion wrote:
>> This is only written for the Mac but it might affect everyone.
>> Does it?
>> 
>> *Firefox Now Sells User Data - Here's How This Affects Mac Users*
>> <https://www.macobserver.com/tips/round-ups/firefox-now-sells-user-data-heres-how-this-affects-mac-users/> 
>> 
>> 
>> They also discuss
>> a. Apple's WebKit
>> b. Google's Blink (which is based on WebKit)
>> c. Mozilla's Gecko (which powers Firefox)
>> 
>> I like their matter-of-fact style, such as when they said, accurately...
>> "You don't have to worship Apple to agree IE was terrible"
>> 
>> Where a fundamental premise of the authors appears to be
>> "It's disheartening Mozilla broke its pledge of over two decades...
>> But funding had to come from somewhere."
>> 
>> Mainly the article is about:
>> "Mozilla's decision to sell Firefox users' data...
>> came as part of a broader change in the organization's terms of service,
>> many of which are worrying"
>> 
>> "Browsers monitoring its users' traffic is exactly
>> the kind of thing Mozilla was created to fight against."
>> 
>> Regarding Firefox on the Mac specifically, they say...
>> "Finding Alternatives to Firefox Isn't Hard - Unless You're a Mac User"

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Firefox Now Sells User Data - Here's How This Affects Mac Users Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-07-06 15:14 +0000
  Re: Firefox Now Sells User Data - Here's How This Affects Mac Users "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-07-06 19:27 +0200
  Re: Firefox Now Sells User Data - Here's How This Affects Mac Users Edward Chan <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-06 18:52 +0000
    Re: Firefox Now Sells User Data - Here's How This Affects Mac Users georg.schwarz@freenet.de (Georg Schwarz) - 2025-07-06 22:34 +0200
      Re: Firefox Now Sells User Data - Here's How This Affects Mac Users Chris Schram <chrispam1@me.com> - 2025-07-06 21:41 +0000
  Re: Firefox Now Sells User Data - Here's How This Affects Mac Users cal@invalid.net - 2025-07-06 15:15 -0500
    Re: Firefox Now Sells User Data - Here's How This Affects Mac Users cal@invalid.net - 2025-07-07 13:54 -0500
    Re: Firefox Now Sells User Data - Here's How This Affects Mac Users "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-07-07 22:34 +0200
  Re: Firefox Now Sells User Data - Here's How This Affects Mac Users Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-06 21:27 +0000
  Re: Firefox Now Sells User Data - Here's How This Affects Mac Users Sam Coats <sam.coats@gmail.com> - 2025-07-07 23:30 +0000
    Re: Firefox Now Sells User Data - Here's How This Affects Mac Users Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2025-07-08 15:22 +1200
    Re: Firefox Now Sells User Data - Here's How This Affects Mac Users Yusuf Khan <yusuf.khan.nospam@ptcl.net.pk> - 2025-07-11 10:24 +0500
      Re: Firefox Now Sells User Data - Here's How This Affects Mac Users Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2025-07-11 18:31 +1200

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