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by intslack 4468 days ago
A URL bar that doesn't feed every website you type out to Google or whoever your autocomplete provider is.

Mozilla is staunch about seperating the Awesome Bar (which autocompletes locally) and the Search Bar.

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Can't they do this without identifying information about the user?
The reason it's bad to do it at all is because you're destroying user faith.

I get that companies need insight about how users use their products. This is not an instance of that, because companies definitely don't need insight about which websites are visited.

Sure, build a tor client directly into Firefox.