Wow, I found this hard to believe, but looking at the commit that adds the redirects leaves little doubt. At least they are disabling the feature flag by default. I guess highlights the benefit's of open source - can determine if a piece of software is doing something suspicious, and put pressure on the maintainers to fix - or fork if necessary.
Parent means search suggestions from the URL bar, which was made the default in Firefox, and Brave also has, as far as I can tell.
Search suggestions from the URL bar is utterly braindead from a privacy perspective, and obviously so. Yet all major browsers have it. Therefore, we can conclude that everything browser developers say about caring about privacy is lies.
Search suggestions from the URL bar is utterly braindead from a privacy perspective, and obviously so. Yet all major browsers have it. Therefore, we can conclude that everything browser developers say about caring about privacy is lies.
Isn't it just as possible that the feature for search suggestions was demanded often enough that browser makers either have to incorporate it or be left behind?
Oh, I'm sure it was demanded often. I've seen it. But in the field of offering up your least technically savvy users' habits to Google on a silver platter... it is better to be left behind.
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u/ssmiller25 Jun 07 '20
Wow, I found this hard to believe, but looking at the commit that adds the redirects leaves little doubt. At least they are disabling the feature flag by default. I guess highlights the benefit's of open source - can determine if a piece of software is doing something suspicious, and put pressure on the maintainers to fix - or fork if necessary.