>> I personally value the freedom to choose what the software I use does, for
instance the freedom to turn off any Sync-like functions in my browser.
Abrowser already ships with that freedom, so I'm fine with it.
> By this logic, the Amazon lens spyware shipped in Ubuntu was not a problem,
because Ubuntu shipped with the freedom to turn it off or remove it. This was
Ubuntu apologists' excuse at the time, and seems like a pretty shallow
understanding of software freedom to me.
Since you explicitely allowed me, I might indeed dare to disagree about the
alleged logical similarity between the two. The Amazon lens spyware was the
very reason why I started to feel something was wrong with Ubuntu, and which
pushed me to keep looking for more fitting alternatives. Please tell me if I
am wrong about this, but from what I understand the sync option in
Firefox/Abrowser does nothing unless you create and activate an account. What
I meant by "turning it off" is getting rid of the related buttons and menu
items that only clutter the interface since I am not using it, which I
personnally do not find to be terribly hurtful. The very difference is
whether anything happens before you have the opportunity to make a choice. Or
to put it even more simply, sync is no spyware, YMMV.
That said, I think we share the same reserves about using sync on a
third-party server.
> YMMV.
Dude. That was a difficult one to get for the old man :D
The first example I came by is: "I thought the shaving cream worked really
well, but YMMV." Dude.
