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Android is now warning of Firefox sharing data

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  • jackbydev@programming.devJ [email protected]

    Alright gang, what are some good open source Firefox forks available on Android and Linux?

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    Waterfox

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    • tomasekeli@programming.devT [email protected]

      Fennec is great on Android

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      I've been pretty happy with it as my casual web search browser, putting all my social media on a different browser. And it's in F-Droid, so that always feels good.

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      • jackbydev@programming.devJ [email protected]

        Alright gang, what are some good open source Firefox forks available on Android and Linux?

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        Librewolf for Linux. And ironfox on android

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          Show me where I made something up, boss. Or do you not know what "probably" means?

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          Do you? Because made up satistics are still made up.

          This is how misinformation starts.

          If your not sure, google it before commenting. For the sanity of the internet.

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            Do you want the short or the long version?

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            A link to it will do

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              Have you read all the other replies? "Google mad", "Google putting Firefox in the dirt", "False info", etc.

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              I interpret top level comments as responses to OP unless they say something otherwise.

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                Do you? Because made up satistics are still made up.

                This is how misinformation starts.

                If your not sure, google it before commenting. For the sanity of the internet.

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                If your not sure, google it before commenting. For the sanity of the internet.

                No. Maybe don't just take something that someone you've never met on the internet said might be true as fact? Maybe you should fucking Google it.

                I mean seriously, the tone of my comment was pretty clear. Do you really need me to explain the connotations of "probably," and "everything good comes from it"?

                I make an off hand comment that is clearly not an attempt to be informative, and you come in all aggressive. Chill the fuck out.

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                  Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.

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                  Wait a second. You're expecting Google to not FUD? Ha ha ha oh wow. I mean I didn't actually expect them to do so, but yeah.

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                    Wait a second. You're expecting Google to not FUD? Ha ha ha oh wow. I mean I didn't actually expect them to do so, but yeah.

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                    Expected, no. Surprised, also no.

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                      Wait a second. You're expecting Google to not FUD? Ha ha ha oh wow. I mean I didn't actually expect them to do so, but yeah.

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                      Wth is fud?

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                        Wth is fud?

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                        Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. It’s more commonly used in crypto communities.

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                          If your not sure, google it before commenting. For the sanity of the internet.

                          No. Maybe don't just take something that someone you've never met on the internet said might be true as fact? Maybe you should fucking Google it.

                          I mean seriously, the tone of my comment was pretty clear. Do you really need me to explain the connotations of "probably," and "everything good comes from it"?

                          I make an off hand comment that is clearly not an attempt to be informative, and you come in all aggressive. Chill the fuck out.

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                          I'm not saying your doing it intentionally.

                          Bur it is how it starts.

                          Edit the person I replied to didn't use probably. Then you came in with a probably statement. That's how miss information starts. People supporting bullshit with "probably"

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                            Waterfox

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                              I personally don't want there to be only one browser engine - Chrome. All other browsers use their engine, or the one powering Firefox. That's actually my main concern. I don't know about you, but Chromium being the only web browser in the world is pretty fuckin scary.

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                                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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                                You must add the repo first using this link

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                                • johnedwa@sopuli.xyzJ [email protected]

                                  It 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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                                  Assuming that's all it's really doing.

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                                    fennec vs ironfox opinions?

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                                    I would love to see a real comparison.

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                                      Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.

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                                      The DDG app shows no 3rd party tracking attempts made by Firefox at all... So far...

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                                        This is not at all a pot kettle situation, there is no reason to warn about Firefox.

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                                        There is: default search results on FF have always legally been sold to Google, the public didn't know since there were no terms of service or mention by FF whenever they uploaded the android version on the playstore that their users data would be collected and some be sold. Position is one of the data that may be sold as it could be used by Google to dermine which localised version of the search result is the best one to serve

                                        And it's not going to be Google in the future: it could be Bing, startpage, ecosia, qwant etc... As long as someone pays, then the results are sold and there needs to be a warning to users.

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                                          Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.

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                                          Isn't that just because Firefox got access to location data because some site asked for it?

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