Microsoft and Google don't even try to hide the fact they will siphon your data, whether you like it or not. You can turn off some of the egregious siphoning, but that's about it.
Mozilla meanwhile claims to be the champion of digital privacy, marketing Firefox as the private browser of choice along with a host of ostensibly privacy products such as VPN, all the while also siphoning data. Turning it all off requires digging deep into about:config.
One group is honest (or at least relatively more so) about what they do. The other entity is a pathological liar led by a queen on Google's leash for controlled opposition purposes. As such, I daresay Microsoft and Google are more private than Mozilla because you know what you sign up for.
I don't think that's what the word "private" means. It's not the same thing as "honest".
Compare the data. Mozilla may be less honest than Google and Microsoft (a premise I also disagree with), but they are demonstrably harvesting much less data.
This is ridiculous. Firefox doesn't beat around the bush with telemetry and makes this clear when you install a new copy of it to your machine. It also does not require "messing around in about:config", this option is presented to the user in Settings, in plainly stated language and in a central location (unlike other browsers, particularly Edge, and Chrome, with privacy related settings in 40 different drop down menus).
> The other entity is a pathological liar led by a queen on Google's leash for controlled opposition purposes
Oh come on, Baker was around since the Netscape days. You just don't like her cause she was a Suit, and that's fine. But except for a bunch of engineers Netscape had a bunch of Suits. It's not some conspiracy that a Suit is still running things.
Mozilla meanwhile claims to be the champion of digital privacy, marketing Firefox as the private browser of choice along with a host of ostensibly privacy products such as VPN, all the while also siphoning data. Turning it all off requires digging deep into about:config.
One group is honest (or at least relatively more so) about what they do. The other entity is a pathological liar led by a queen on Google's leash for controlled opposition purposes. As such, I daresay Microsoft and Google are more private than Mozilla because you know what you sign up for.