[Chester LUG] Looks like Firefox got caught bundling adware in the browser.

Les Pritchard les.pritchard at gmail.com
Sun Oct 8 23:04:13 UTC 2017


Oh dear, that's not good. Someone recommended Brave Browser to me recently.
It has a built in ad blocker. Tried it a little bit and it seemed to work
well.

On 8 Oct 2017 11:33 pm, "stuart--- via Chester" <chester at mailman.lug.org.uk>
wrote:

> Just a quick one… Looks like FF are “experimenting” with adware/spyware
> bundled into the browser. Worth a read..https://www.reddit.com/
> r/privacy/comments/750vsm/firefox_devs_discussing_how_
> to_secretly_sneak_the/ Not gone in depth but it’s all a bit naughty imho.
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