Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.

  • BetterNotBigger@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Even if this isn’t entirely true, you know Google wouldn’t pass up the opportunity to reduce Firefox market share to scare everyone back to Chrome.

    • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      There’s no need to reduce Firefox marketshare. Most people don’t even consider using anything else than whatever is default in their device.

      Also, it’s not a Google scare tactic or a flex. Every application on the Play Store must disclose the general outlines of their data policy, including the sharing of data. Lying with those checkbox is not a good idea but they are completely informative and put there by the publishing party, so the people responsible for publishing Firefox on mobile just updated these, and this is what is shown when an app publisher say their app is sharing data with third parties.

      tl;dr: it’s very likely that not a single soul at Google even looked at this, as this is just the regular behavior of the Play Store with apps that changes their data policy or indicate sharing user data with third parties.

      • pycorax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        That’s not the point they’re trying to make I think. It’s more of an attack on perfection. Like “the alternative is not perfect either so why not just stay with Chrome”. It’s not a very strong argument in general but it might be enough to keep people from switching.

    • Engywook@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      There isn’t to much to reduce. I don’t think Google is scared or afraid by Firefox, like at all.

  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Google: “Forcing us to divest Chrome could have impacts on our ability to support Mozilla and their high executive salaries as we own the space with Chrome.”

    Also Google:

  • hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    FWIW I’m not seeing this on the Play Store for Firefox 136.0.1 on my Pixel 8a, and I’m not seeing any warnings on Beta or Nightly either:

  • Laurel Raven@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Okay, turned it off. If a site needs my location it can ask me and I can politely tell it to fuck off unless it has a warrant.

      • DaveyRocket@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        1 year ago

        It looks like they have a team and it’s open-source. It’s a gamble, but I’m guessing the death of Firefox would probably be a boon, not a hinderance, depending on who supports what from there.

      • Bazoogle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        That’s chromium based. Having more firefox based browsers helps take away the dominate control Google has on browsers.

          • Bazoogle@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            lol, honestly, just Firefox. I know there’s a lot of hubbub about Mozilla and Firefox with them changing their ToS, but you can disable all sponsored items, and anonymous. And even though they changed their ToS, I don’t think they’ve changed anything. They’ve sold anonymized data for a while. People here don’t seem to like data selling of any kind, but Firefox only collects anonymized data, and it’s a free service.

            The only two real options will be Chrome and Chromium based, and Firefox and Firefox based. For Firefox based that isn’t firefox, you’ve got:

            • Librewolf
            • Mullvad
            • Zen
            • Floorp

            If you google for other browsers, and find one you haven’t heard of, there’s a 99% chance it’s Chromium based.