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Mozilla is no saint especially with their Pocket, Cliqz shennanigans but theyre miles better than MS.



Having been a very satisfied Pocket user before Firefox bundled it, I was quite happy to see the new integration, which works great.

So, I am having trouble figuring out what are the events/changes that you are characterizing as "shannagains"?


I was mostly referring to Cliqz, but I don't like Pocket being forced in the browser itself. And all the "recommended from pocket" content on the home page.

Yes, you can disable it but why not make it a preinstalled extension that can be removed entirely.


Cliqz, the search engine that went broke early in the pandemic? Tell me more bout the shennanigans, please.


>On 6 October 2017, Mozilla announced a test where approximately 1% of users downloading Firefox in Germany would receive a version with Cliqz software included. The feature provided recommendations directly in the browser's search field. Recommendations included news, weather, sports, and other websites and were based on the user's browsing history and activities. The press release noted that "Users who receive a version of Firefox with Cliqz will have their browsing activity sent to Cliqz servers, including the URLs of pages they visit," and that "Cliqz uses several techniques to attempt to remove sensitive information from this browsing data before it is sent from Firefox."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliqz#Integration_with_Firefox


True that was bad. But it's nowhere near as bad as this step from Microsoft.


Well the shenanigans was that it meant that users Firefox with Cliqz pre-installed had all their browsing activity sent to Cliqz servers.




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