Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

This honestly does not come as a surprise.

It's the same story - an unsuspecting update adds [ads|crypto|rewards|suggestions], users complain, and they apologize for having it enabled by default, and point out that to an option to turn it off, 10 clicks under.

Rinse and repeat.

Just use Firefox, and at this point the Chromium Edge probably takes things more seriously (including privacy) compared to the joke that Brave is.



While I prefer Firefox over other browsers, with 10 unchecked checkboxes (and counting) in my “email preferences” they are also guilty of using the same dark pattern.


And the damn notifications! You are on my phone for me to browse the web, not so Mozilla has access to my eyeballs!

Worst part is if you turn notifications off the share to device functionality doesn't work anymore


What notifications? You mean on Android? I've never seen any and I use the send functionality constantly.


iOS. These

https://cohan.me/images/IMG_3580.jpg

https://cohan.me/images/IMG_3688.jpg

There were more but I didn't start screenshotting till they felt like they were taking the piss


Wow, that looks really annoying. Must be an iOS specific thing then. Have you tried opening an issue on bugzilla?


Do you mean your Firefox account? That’s a little orthogonal to the browser I would think...




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: