"Today marks an important milestone in the history of Firefox and the web. As of today, for NEW USERS who download and install Firefox for the FIRST TIME, Enhanced Tracking Protection will automatically be set on by default, protecting our users from the pervasive tracking and collection of personal data by ad networks and tech companies."
this gives me the impression that Mozilla is trying to pull in a bunch of new recruits, also does this mean upgrades or repetitive DLs will not have this ~privacy by default?
Probably. This is generally the correct way to handle an upgrade while minimizing breaking changes to the user. Changing a user's settings during an upgrade will erode users' trust in doing so in the future, even if it's "good" for them.
So they're killing the Google relationship? I mean something called "Enhanced Tracking Protection" would have to disable any sending of data to Google (or anyone, except the server as required to get the data requested), surely?!?
Google might not be happy about this move, but historically Google has paid Mozilla to be the default search engine in Firefox, which doesn't require Firefox sending any data to Google (apart from actual search queries, obviously).
this gives me the impression that Mozilla is trying to pull in a bunch of new recruits, also does this mean upgrades or repetitive DLs will not have this ~privacy by default?