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		alister on March 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Researchers say MS Edge's telemetry has worst priv... > Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, meanwhile, tag requests with identifiers, but that information is reset when the browser is re-installed. All send details of the webpages visited to the backend via auto-complete, but with verifying identifiers. Chrome is, in this case, are persistent, while Safari’s are ephemeral and Mozilla doesn’t have identifiers at all. First it says, Firefox tags with identifiers, then it says, Mozilla [Firefox] doesn’t have identifiers at all. What explains this apparent contradiction?

theferalrobot on March 22, 2020 | [–]

I think what they meant to say is Firefox has identifiers but they do not have persistent identifiers.

officialjunk on March 22, 2020 | [–]

to me it seems they may think firefox and mozilla are two different things.

Roboprog on March 22, 2020 | [–]

Or perhaps Brave was supposed to be one of those items?

Clearly, the article needed editorial proof reading in a few spots.

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