Many such companies
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Many such companies
They deserve to go bankrupt after that level of damage. I won’t be surprised if a class action comes against them for gross negligence within the next few years. They’re cooked and they know it.
I’m upvoting because this is good relevant information, but man I wanted to downvote. How awful.
For getting free labor, of course.
Yeah but the idiots in this case are venture capitalists funding the whole damn thing
They’re a little late to the game. Let’s hope for their sake this AI bubble doesn’t burst for a bit so they can make their money back.
There really wasn’t an expectation of privacy with this. This is not a surprise.
Oh good. 6.1 seems to fix the only bugs that have personally bothered me. I’m stoked!
Got into an argument about this once. The other person insisted that if I wipe my hard drive and reinstall, that I’m a pathetic moron who doesn’t deserve to use a computer.
In fairness, it’s usually better to fix things so you can learn, but dang they were toxic.
I don’t think it’s an American prison.
Yeah it’s not ideal. I just don’t see a world where Microsoft will set people’s search engine to DuckDuckGo
Glad you had something useful and helpful to add to the discussion. Have you ever in your life heard of “playing devils advocate”? Read a book some time.
Imagine you have a computer that’s been compromised by malware. What do you think the search engine will be set to? Not Google, not Bing, probably some third party one that has ads and malware. Changing that to Bing would technically qualify as a repair.
They could easily improve this by just adding a list of common reputable search engines, and adding those to an allow list.
I’d just like for these things to be opt-in, not opt-out.
A non-profit can, in fact, profit, but it has specific rules on what it can do with those profits. Tax law is a rabbit hole and I don’t even wanna peer in
It seems like a profit-driven thing to me. Big piles of anonymized data are worth a pretty penny.
Importantly, if you have already opted out of sending data to Mozilla, this change will not affect you. It only sends data if you have the setting turned on. It takes just a few clicks to entirely disable it, and Mozilla deletes all record of your browser within 30 days from turning off this feature. If you’re worried about it, do it now, it’s just under Settings > Privacy & Security. Instructions are also linked in the blog post.
This isn’t a surprise but it’s good to see light shed on it
They got it by running a honeypot exit node like they always do