> The surfing activities of those users who receive a Firefox version with Cliqz are sent to the Cliqz servers; including the URLs of the pages they visit.
Yeah thanks but no thanks.
Yeah thanks but no thanks.
What the hell, Mozilla? Google is tracking everything, come to us we'll respect your privacy ... while we send all the urls you visit to some 3rd party you've never heard of.
/s
"Cliqz uses different methods which should take care of removing sensitive information, before it's sent out from Firefox. Additionally, Cliqz does not create profiles of individual users and erases their IPs as soon as the data has been collected. The code of Cliqz is publicly accessible [open-source under MPLv2] [1] and a description of the used methods can be viewed here [in English, 2]."
[1] https://github.com/cliqz-oss/browser-core/blob/master/module...
[2] https://gist.github.com/solso/423a1104a9e3c1e3b8d7c9ca14e885...
2) why should I or anyone else trust a company called Cliqz to do anything?
Discriminating by name will get you absolutely nowhere.
We do not trust those either.
With the recent progress in Firefox they had a really good position to win users back. A key driver would be getting away from Google (Chrome) who wants your data.
That driver has now been reduced. They have taken the lower road.
Neither do I trust YCombinator with this data. Or anyone else...
So why trust company X? The point being: I do not.
Thank you for your software but please do not use it as leverage for getting my data.
Nothing in your full quote makes it any more palatable.
No matter how nice your intentions are. No matter how transparent you are. No matter how sincere your wish to contribute to a greater common good is. Do not... Do not... Do simply not collect my browsing data. They are not yours to have.
Whatever excuse is brought to the table I will take it as dishonesty. It can come as no surprise that even the slightest privacy concerned users will take offense of this. They simply hope it will fly under the radar of the common users - because "we do good".
(Please do not take the "yours" as a personal attack - english is my second language - some nuance has been lost in translation)