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WeirdSarah9@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 days ago

So... seems like Firefox has its own trackers too?

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So... seems like Firefox has its own trackers too?

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WeirdSarah9@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 days ago
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  • truthfultemporarily@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    Telemetry != tracking

    • WeirdSarah9@lemmy.worldOP
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      17 hours ago

      Happy cake day, though.

      …or not, dunno if Cake Day is also a thing to wish happy for here.

    • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Happy cake day!

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
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    Yes, it has had telemetry for as long as I can remember. You can see the collected data at about:telemetry and you can turn it off in the settings.

    • WeirdSarah9@lemmy.worldOP
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      Ironfox says “about:telemetry” is a unavaliable URL.

    • fizzle@quokk.au
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      Its also disabled in the secure soft forks like librewolf et al.

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    Some limited telemetry makes sense so devs can know what to work on

    • zurohki@aussie.zone
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      They also can see if a new piece of code is crashing all over the place.

  • lime!@feddit.nu
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    yup, for logging errors in the browser. imagine having to close every complaint from users because you don’t know what they were doing when something went wrong :(

    • WeirdSarah9@lemmy.worldOP
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      Oooh, got it.

  • DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth
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    Telemetry in FF is nothing new, but you can disable it.

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    Find out for yourself!

    https://codeberg.org/dialhome-study/browser-network-insights

    Usage details for running locally under “Testing procedure” -> “Basic test environment usage”

    Previously posted on this community here: https://lemmy.ca/post/59519788

    • somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      It seems that the new Konform browser is better than librewolf.

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        skavau is a clown

        • ken@discuss.tchncs.de
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          There is message for those of you in sibling thread!

          https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/23650139

        • somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          OK.

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    Old news, install Librewolf.

    • WeirdSarah9@lemmy.worldOP
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      Forks also contain trackers, the best you can do today is use the browsers with TC on your phone. IronFox also has these trackers listed. Tor also has them.

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        No it’s false, TorBrowsers, Librewolf and IronFox doesn’t contains telemetry.

        Just because some browsers are forks doesn’t mean they contain telemetry.

        The code is open-source, so anyone can see it by taking a look.

        • WeirdSarah9@lemmy.worldOP
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          The screenshot in the post is from IronFox.

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