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Old May 31st 18, 05:46 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Since I expressed how I hated Mozilla today...

In article , Mayayana
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The diced, canned tomatoes I buy at Whole Foods
are from Muir Glen, but that's a pseudonym of 365,
which is the WF house brand, which is now owned
by Amazon. It's not easy to even figure out these things.
I don't want to support Amazon. But what's my
choice, since WF decimated the small natural foods
stores?


certainly there are other stores near you that sell diced canned
tomatoes. whole foods can't be the *only* option.

and since they're canned, you could order it from whatever seller you
wish to support.

The American retail economy is designed to
thwart accountability. (And don't get me started on
Trader Joes.)


perhaps you should live on a farm and grow your own food.

that way, you won't have to support anyone other than yourself.

To my mind, for all its faults,
Mozilla browsers are *by far* the closest thing to
a clean, honest and functional browser that one can get.
Mostly because there's a lot of info about how to make it
that way. (For the average person who knows nothing
of extensions and about:config it is going downhill fast,
though.)

Chrome is spyware. Microsoft browsers have become
limited niche products of no consequence. Ditto for Safari.
What does that leave? Mozilla. Maybe Iron. Not much
else.


write your own browser with exactly the features you want and none of
the ones you don't.

that's obviously more work than downloading an existing browser, but
then you won't need to worry about what it's doing behind the scenes.

Vivaldi may not be as much spyware as Chrome,
but neither does it act honorably:

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/01/30/vi...owser-privacy/

They claim to only be collecting personal info in order
to help them make a better browser. But it's not optional.
The very idea that they have a right to clandestinely
collect data on people who use their product is
unredeemably dishonest.


except that they go out of their way to anonymize it.

there is also nothing dishonest about analytics.

nevertheless, there are ways to block it and other apps from phoning
home.

what's amusing is that the ghacks site has a banner that states:
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our
website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are
happy with it.

in other words, the site you linked is also clandestinely collecting
data on people, something which you believe to be unredeemably
dishonest.

And their extensions are Chrome extensions. Can
they be trusted? I'm certainly not going to the Google
Store.


it depends on the extension.

it's no different than any other software.

how do you know firefox extensions are trustworthy?
how do you know any app is trustworthy?

unless you do a packet trace, you have *no* way to know what any
software is sending, and even if you did do that, the data it sends
could be encrypted, so all you know is it sent something but not what.
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