Android is now warning of Firefox sharing data
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Do they mean “Firefox can get your location data to pass on to pages you give permission to, who we cannot guarantee won’t share it with advertisers” or “Firefox reserves the right to do a deal to monetise the tantalising firehose of location data coming from your device unless you specifically opt out”?
Who can say
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Never heard of that, what's the benefit over F-Droid?
The main difference is of philosophy of trust. With F-droid you trust F-droid to build the binary from the developers' source code. With Accrescent, you trust the developers to build the binary from the source code.
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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
building a web browser is extremely difficult and everyone else uses Google's version of WebKit
To be fair it is based on KHTML. One of projects KDE can spend that extra money on and resurrect.
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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 privacy -
The main difference is of philosophy of trust. With F-droid you trust F-droid to build the binary from the developers' source code. With Accrescent, you trust the developers to build the binary from the source code.
So Accrescent is more like the classic play store or Obtainium?
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building a web browser is extremely difficult and everyone else uses Google's version of WebKit
To be fair it is based on KHTML. One of projects KDE can spend that extra money on and resurrect.
Bring back Konqueror too while at it!
Edit: Apparently it still exists, it just isn't the default on any mainstream distros anymore
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"Quick! Jump to chrome instead!" - Google spokesperson
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Fanboys of Firefox: "DUHB DUHB USE FIREFOX CUZ IT NOT CHROME DUHB DUHB!"
Genuine question to see if the downvotes are justified or not : are you implying Chrome is a good browser and if so, why?
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Because they are legally obligated to mention it?
...except they don't for their own browser.
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Are they? What law?
Probably GDPR if I had to guess. Seems like anything decent these companies do can be directly traced back to GDPR.
Edit: guys, "probably" means that I'm unsure.
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building a web browser is extremely difficult and everyone else uses Google's version of WebKit
To be fair it is based on KHTML. One of projects KDE can spend that extra money on and resurrect.
Saying KHTML = WebKit is like saying a sponge is a killer whale.
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Well, there seem to be some good safe alternatives. I am currently switching from Firefox to Vivaldi, for example.
Isn't Vivaldi a chromium browser?
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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?
The downvotes are idiotic fanboys who faithfully clutch Firefox like rosary beads because it isn't chrome.
Why the fuck would anyone imply that I think Chrome is any better? It only tells me they're fucking morons.
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The downvotes are idiotic fanboys who faithfully clutch Firefox like rosary beads because it isn't chrome.
Why the fuck would anyone imply that I think Chrome is any better? It only tells me they're fucking morons.
An alternative explanation is that the trolling style of your post is attracting downvotes.
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Isn't Vivaldi a chromium browser?
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Probably GDPR if I had to guess. Seems like anything decent these companies do can be directly traced back to GDPR.
Edit: guys, "probably" means that I'm unsure.
No GDPR does not require google to display app permissions like that...
Your just making things up.
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An alternative explanation is that the trolling style of your post is attracting downvotes.
A more succinct explanation is that they are just an asshole.
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So Accrescent is more like the classic play store or Obtainium?
In the play store you're trusting Google and the developer.
I'm not sure how obtainium works. But if you download binaries from GitHub, you're trusting the developer to accurately build their source code into the binary without adding anything. You're also trusting GitHub implicitly -- way back when, source forge was sometimes adding malware to downloads iirc.
F-droid is kind of cool in that they are saying, "we will ensure for you that the code you execute is the same as the open source code you can read". But this added level of insurance comes with downsides -- like sometimes it's harder for the developer to make their code build properly, or maybe updates take longer.
