Android is now warning of Firefox sharing data
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Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.
Fennec is great on Android
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Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.
i mean it's just because you can grant websites location data and toggle telemetry.
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Does libre wolf have an android app?
IronFox is the closest alternative. F-Droid repo here:
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IronFox is the closest alternative. F-Droid repo here:
Thank you
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Fennec but I think it still shares some data
Thanks for that
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Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.
Deactivate from settings
Have https always on, protection against tracking on strict, data collection and daily ping on off.And that's it.
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IronFox is the closest alternative. F-Droid repo here:
Dead link
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Dead link
Do you have F-Droid installed? Not to pull a docker, but it is opening for me on 2 separate devices.
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They want to scare people to stay on Chrome now that they discontinued support of uBlock (not that it was ever supported on Chrome for Android anyway)
So they do this for all apps. Every single app that is in the Android ecosystem. But in your mind they're specifically targeting firefox with this to make people "scared" huh?
Must be nice to live in denial.
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The main problem is that building a web browser is extremely difficult and everyone else uses Google's version of WebKit. So there's no alternatives: it's either Google or Mozilla. Forks don't count because if some functionality that end users need is deprecated, nobody will maintain it and it will just disappear once it's removed from the main codebase
Yes, I agree. That's why I'm weirded out by people saying "Firefox bad, use Librewolf" and the like.
I still think a solution that relies on donation (maybe with some corporate support) would be very good for everyone involved. Unfortunately, Mozilla is not a player in this, so we're stuck with basically three engines, one that can't be used, one that's openly hostile, and one that's becoming hostile.
Not great.
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Firefox engines have telemetry since old ages. Do you know what even crazier ??? even other firefox browser like fennec has Mozilla telemetry.
PSA : disable it with Blocker (ROOT) for more privacyIt has a mozilla telemetry component, but that doesn't mean that it's necessarily reporting to mozilla - which wouldn't make much sense anyway - nor that it actually functions at all. Most telemetry components in Firefox can't simply be deleted because it causes stuff to break, so they are replaced with stubs that don't actually do anything.
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Even if this isn't entirely true, you know Google wouldn't pass up the opportunity to reduce Firefox market share to scare everyone back to Chrome.
Firefox? You mean the company they give several hundred million dollars/year? Yeah I don't think they're too worried. They need some number of users on Firefox to prevent anti-trust issues. Which they're on the brink of right now.
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The main problem is that building a web browser is extremely difficult and everyone else uses Google's version of WebKit. So there's no alternatives: it's either Google or Mozilla. Forks don't count because if some functionality that end users need is deprecated, nobody will maintain it and it will just disappear once it's removed from the main codebase
Hopefully Servo will change that
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Genuine question to see if the downvotes are justified or not : are you implying Chrome is a good browser and if so, why?
Down votes are justified for acting like a douche
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Like chrome does something different?
It integrates into the Google ecosystem well, and if that has value to a person it may just be enough to bring them back to chrome.
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(What's funny is that I went for writing an actual reply and did not downvote).
I think AugustWest's point kinda got proven just now.
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There's no need to reduce Firefox marketshare. Most people don't even consider using anything else than whatever is default in their device.
Also, it's not a Google scare tactic or a flex. Every application on the Play Store must disclose the general outlines of their data policy, including the sharing of data. Lying with those checkbox is not a good idea but they are completely informative and put there by the publishing party, so the people responsible for publishing Firefox on mobile just updated these, and this is what is shown when an app publisher say their app is sharing data with third parties.
tl;dr: it's very likely that not a single soul at Google even looked at this, as this is just the regular behavior of the Play Store with apps that changes their data policy or indicate sharing user data with third parties.
Why the dichotomy between the chrome listing on the store then?
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Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.
Alright gang, what are some good open source Firefox forks available on Android and Linux?
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...except they don't for their own browser.
It's literally there.
