(Disclaimer: I work at Cliqz) Just read the article. It is from 2017 and very short. For the non-German speakers, I have to translate the relevant part:
> Rund ein Prozent der Firefox-Downloads enthalten künftig das Add-On Cliqz, das bereits beim Eintippen Vorschläge für Webseiten anzeigt. Dafür wertet es die Surf-Aktivitäten aller Nutzer aus.
About 1% of the Firefox downloads will contain the Cliqz Addon, which will show you search suggestions for websites while you type. For that, it uses browsing activities of all users.
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The last "of all users" is important. Yes, our search is built on data collected from users, but the point is we cannot build profiles of single users; we are only seeing what the whole group of users does. I cannot stress that part enough. We are not Avast.
In fact, we are very open about our data collection system called Human Web:
I can understand that you did not like the way that Mozilla rolled it out in 2017. I'm also not glad about how it went (my personal opinion). But from the technical side, I'm more than happy to take any question on that topic (how we collect data in Cliqz).
> Rund ein Prozent der Firefox-Downloads enthalten künftig das Add-On Cliqz, das bereits beim Eintippen Vorschläge für Webseiten anzeigt. Dafür wertet es die Surf-Aktivitäten aller Nutzer aus.
About 1% of the Firefox downloads will contain the Cliqz Addon, which will show you search suggestions for websites while you type. For that, it uses browsing activities of all users.
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The last "of all users" is important. Yes, our search is built on data collected from users, but the point is we cannot build profiles of single users; we are only seeing what the whole group of users does. I cannot stress that part enough. We are not Avast.
In fact, we are very open about our data collection system called Human Web:
* https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-03/human-web-collecting-data-i...
And this article explains how we provide anonymity while sending:
* https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-04/human-web-proxy-network-hpn...
I can understand that you did not like the way that Mozilla rolled it out in 2017. I'm also not glad about how it went (my personal opinion). But from the technical side, I'm more than happy to take any question on that topic (how we collect data in Cliqz).