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So Google owns Mozilla's Tracking Protection Servers...

Firefox_Beginner
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I install the latest firefox version and discovered that firefox connected to tracking-protection.cdn.mozilla.net This adress (server) appears to be owned by Google LLC [United States of America] AS396982

See images attached below, or try for yourself https://dnschecker.org/all-dns-records-of-domain.php

I asume Mozilla rent's those servers from Google or just has a contract with Google to allow them and use their servers? Anyways i see this as a big issue, who can guarantee that Google doesn't see the traffic of these servers???

I install the latest firefox version and discovered that firefox connected to tracking-protection.cdn.mozilla.net This adress (server) appears to be owned by Google LLC [United States of America] AS396982 See images attached below, or try for yourself https://dnschecker.org/all-dns-records-of-domain.php I asume Mozilla rent's those servers from Google or just has a contract with Google to allow them and use their servers? Anyways i see this as a big issue, who can guarantee that Google doesn't see the traffic of these servers???
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cor-el
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Mozilla has moved a lot of its cloud based storage from Amazon Web Services (EC2:Elastic Compute Cloud) to Google Cloud Storage (GCS). There are a lot of companies that offer such cloud based storage to allow fast access to specific data from all over the world and Mozilla has chosen for GCS as better suitable.

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Well in that case it doesn't really matter, google and amazon are both greedy bad companies. Switching from one evil to another makes no difference i guess. If money wasn't an issue, mozilla should host their own cloud servers or rent from a more respectul party that isn't after mass surveillance and global dominance.