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The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (stackdiary.com)

submitted 1 year ago by const_void@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Astaroth@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I switched to Firefox 6 months ago and it's working much better than Chromium for me, I do have some minor complaints but for the most part it's been equivalent or better.

However I can't seem to turn off the telemetry at all...

[–] blank0429@mastodon.social 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@Astaroth Have you try this? https://www.howtogeek.com/557929/how-to-see-and-disable-the-telemetry-data-firefox-collects-about-you/

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

Or: https://librewolf.net/

[–] Astaroth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

thanks for the link, there were a few options in about:config that I hadn't set to false

although even after going through all those Firefox says Telemetry is collecting release data and upload is disabled. so even if it's not being sent it appears that it's still being collected. (about:telemetry)

maybe it will change after reboot, I will edit later if that's the case.

[–] 133arc585@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

However I can’t seem to turn off the telemetry at all…

Which telemetry, specifically? Anything you can't find in the standard settings menu can be found in about:config. There are plenty of articles with huge lists of settings to adjust in about:config with explanations on what different values do.