Mozilla did something good!

https://feddit.uk/post/33362845

Still does telemetry, and allows easy fingerprinting by default. Use Librewolf instead.

by the way some people talk here you’d think “telemetry” was a synonym to “satanism”.

telemetry is not automatically evil.

It would be ok if it was opt in

and if there were laws with actual penalties which ensured that it was only used for providing the service and not assimilated into a data broker database so that they can guess which shampoo I’m going to buy or which brown people they can kidnap.

A man can dream

The EU has been making some good progress in that direction luckily

The vast majority of progress on privacy rights and electronics regulation for the US Consumer is because of EU regulations.

We’re unlikely to see any progress domestically anytime soon.