Android is now warning of Firefox sharing data
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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.
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An alternative explanation is that the trolling style of your post is attracting downvotes.
I'm going to assume you're one of the downvoters and anyone else in this chain. I'm going to now auto-block. Bye.
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A more succinct explanation is that they are just an asshole.
That's indeed a natural conclusion about the kind of person who writes a post like that, but I didn't want to rule out other explanations such as drug consumption or stupidity.
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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.
And here I'm trusting Accrescent to actually deliver me an executable that has not been tampered with
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Does libre wolf have an android app?
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Does libre wolf have an android app?
Fennec but I think it still shares some data
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I'm going to assume you're one of the downvoters and anyone else in this chain. I'm going to now auto-block. Bye.
Take your meds, you're spiraling
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And here I'm trusting Accrescent to actually deliver me an executable that has not been tampered with
Yes you are trusting them, and the developer. Just like you are trusting F-droid if you download from them. You also have to trust that the compiler program doesn't do anything fishy. It's trust all the way down.
The good news is that lots of people are working on making the systems trustworthy, and you as a consumer can learn to distinguish between what can be trusted for your usecase and what can't.
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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.
