Android is now warning of Firefox sharing data
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God damn why's the world so shit
My understanding is this is due to regions broadening the definition of "sell" to include any form of personal data transfer. So Mozilla giving location info (with consent if you enable "ask every time" in the permissions) to websites to look up local store hours or whatever is "selling data."
AFAIK, nothing has changed in Firefox.
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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”?
The former, but the language looks vague enough that they could do the latter eventually. My understanding is that they have to be vague in the language for legal reasons (e.g. to appease regulators in various markets).
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fennec vs ironfox opinions?
- Fennec - Firefox build with some proprietary stiff removed; repo
- IronFox - Firefox fork (forked from Mull) with a bunch of hardening changes (notably
resistFingerprintingenabled); repo
IronFox is more ambitious, which means higher maintenance load and more likely to fall behind. Fennec is much simpler, so less likely to fall behind, but also doesn't change much from Firefox.
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With F-droid you trust F-droid to build the binary from the developers' source code
Not when using a self-hosted F-Droid Repo - which is the case for Ironfox.
I wish more projects hosted their own F-droid repo and kept it up to date. FUTO has one for their stuff (Grayjay, FUTO Keyboard, etc), but it's frequently outdated, whereas Bitwarden and a few others I use do a good job.
Maybe Accrescent is what I'm looking for. I just want a store that:
- automatically updates when devs push a release
- checks signatures
- has a good selection of FOSS apps
I basically want fdroid, but faster updates.
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Librewolf is Firefox plus some light patches, and as such depends entirely from Firefox.
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The DDG app shows no 3rd party tracking attempts made by Firefox at all... So far...
Yeah. People can avoid all this nonsense by installing one simple app... Duck duck go browser.
You don't have to use the browser. It just sits in the background quietly blocking tracking requests from other apps.
It's absolutely horrifying on first use to see how egregious tracking is.
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Yeah. People can avoid all this nonsense by installing one simple app... Duck duck go browser.
You don't have to use the browser. It just sits in the background quietly blocking tracking requests from other apps.
It's absolutely horrifying on first use to see how egregious tracking is.
That's not how it works. Apps cannot access the traffic of other apps, let alone decrypt it. There is no way DDG Browser does what you claim it does. They do not even claim that themselves.
EDIT: Unless, of course, it works as a VPN, which apparently it does.
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Wth is fud?
Fucking Ultra Demon
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Isn't that just because Firefox got access to location data because some site asked for it?
commenting cus I also have the same question
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Yeah. People can avoid all this nonsense by installing one simple app... Duck duck go browser.
You don't have to use the browser. It just sits in the background quietly blocking tracking requests from other apps.
It's absolutely horrifying on first use to see how egregious tracking is.
deadass? I just use adguard
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That's not how it works. Apps cannot access the traffic of other apps, let alone decrypt it. There is no way DDG Browser does what you claim it does. They do not even claim that themselves.
EDIT: Unless, of course, it works as a VPN, which apparently it does.
figured as much
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Hey guys, did you know?
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That's not how it works. Apps cannot access the traffic of other apps, let alone decrypt it. There is no way DDG Browser does what you claim it does. They do not even claim that themselves.
EDIT: Unless, of course, it works as a VPN, which apparently it does.
It does in fact do what they claim it does, by functioning as a VPN.
You should probably try the app first before talking out of your ass.
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pot -> kettle
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How about turning off data sharing in whole android... Google...
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figured as much
They're making shit up. I can assure you that the DDG app does in fact block trackers in other apps, by functioning as a VPN. Give it a try, it really does work.
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deadass? I just use adguard
I use both adguard and the DDG app. You should be using both too.
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Saying KHTML = WebKit is like saying a sponge is a killer whale.
"based on"
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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.
you're right Google's not worried.
as for anti-trust, they're already in sentencing phase.
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Which is chrome in a trench coat.
