This sends every keystroke you type to Mozilla.Īnother more recent issue is that most people did not well receive Firefox’s recent redesign well. On top of that, Firefox currently has a feature called Firefox Suggest where it can suggest websites while you’re typing in the URL bar. It also pings Google to find your geolocation which is especially stupid because Mozilla has its own geolocation service that isn’t used in Firefox. For example, Firefox pings Google for safe browsing to make sure that the website you’re trying to visit is safe. The problem is, out of the box Firefox does collect some data. One huge issue is that Firefox brands itself on being privacy friendly, and not collecting data user data. Keeping that in mind, Firefox has been in a lot of hot water, which is causing it to lose its ground fast. So, Firefox is our last hope for a non-Chromium based browser if you aren’t running an Apple product. This is a problem because we have one company, Google, controlling every web standard going into our browsers. But, if we take out iPhones and include only Android based devices, Firefox (and its forks) are the only mobile browser that doesn’t use Chromium’s engine and it only has 0.5% market share. The non-Chromium based Safari does take up 25% of mobile market share when you include iPhones. It gets even worse when you include mobile web browsers. When this is done, Chromium based browsers make up more than 80% of the market share. Google’s dominance over browser market share gets even more scary when you include other Chromium based browsers such as Edge and Opera. They also have a huge incentive to get as much control of web standards as possible to increase their profits. That is 70% of the web is controlled by just one company, a company that makes money by selling your user data and pushing ads. If you look at the current desktop browser market share, Chrome takes up almost 70%. So, Firefox is our last hope for a non-Chromium based browser.
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