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by gkya 3004 days ago
> No one is forcing you to use Firefox stable release version if it is not consistent with your faith

Nope. Debian repos (and most package managers I'd guess) do not have Nightly or Developer Edition. There's no direct link on the download page [1] that takes you to where you can download the Nightly branch. And the page for downloading it [2], to which you reach if you search for it specifically, makes it as visible as it gets that it's beta and meant for testing. I guess all of this is just lightly forcing you to download latest release. (edit: I mean this as sth. positive BTW, they're making it quite obvious which is the wiser option for the end user)

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/, "Get a sneak peek at our next generation web browser, and help us make it the best browser it can be: try Firefox Nightly."
1 comments
kuschku 3004 days ago
1. google the web, e.g. using duckduckgo, for "firefox nightly ppa"

2. Go to https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ubuntu/...

3. apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa

4. apt install firefox-trunk

5. firefox-trunk

At no point during this are you informed that you will be subject to illegal tracking and analytics.

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dotsh 3003 days ago
No matter what way of installing you choose they inform you via official website about pre-release version witch includes notice about sending automatic feedback. You don't need to prove your point in the most bizarre way and you can inform PPA admin to add this little line for clarification.
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kuschku 3003 days ago
> the most bizarre way

Installing via PPA is much more common and trusted than installing a random binary from a random website.

> to add this little line for clarification.

That’s too late anyway, from May 8 on the GDPR comes into force, and then this will require explicit opt-in from the user, and the rest of the software has to continue working even if the user does not explicitly opt-in.

So, I’ll just wait for that. Also waiting for the day that the analytics on about:addons becomes explicitly opt-in, instead of being connected to the DNT setting.

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gkya 3003 days ago
Firefox is open source software. They can not control every single person distributing their software. That PPA is probably maintained by volunteers or Ubuntu folk.
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