“Last month, Mozilla made a quiet change in Firefox that caused some diehard users to revolt…”

  • kuneho@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Peoples are mostly angry at the fact that they just silently slipped this system in without asking for consent.

    But why? Does it expose more data? More sensitive data than before?

    What I don’t get, but maybe because of the lack of information I have on the topic is that if it’s better in terms of data privacy than before, or is it better if it’s turned on than off, why is it such a great problem, if it’s turned on by default? In this case, not turning it on would be something that one should be noted. Any technical, real-world reasons why not giving my consent to enable this feature gives reason to get mad, or is this really just about “not having a choice”, regardless the outcome?