Android is now warning of Firefox sharing data
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Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.
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Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.
Pretty easy to disable the location app permission or set it to ask every time. Firefox hasn't asked me to enable it since turning it off.
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Fennec on mobile. LibreWolf on desktop.
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How is Mullvad Browser? I know it's based on Firefox but wouldn't imagine they would tolerate this.
Fine. I preferred Fennec over the two for quality of life and ease of use balanced with privacy.
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Get ironfox?
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Vivaldi is where it’s at
No, it's really not. Fuck chromium of all flavors.
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That said I’m open to better alternatives. I’m working hard to protect myself.
Fennec. Ironfox. Mullvad. Tor.
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Like chrome does something different?
Yes, chrome is doing something different. It is even worse!
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I've not heard of ironfox before this thread! Could you possibly link it? Doesn't seem like it's on FDroid or IzzyOnDroid
You have to add IronFox's repo in F-Droid before you can install it from there. This is their Github link.
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Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.
Do they share location data without asking though? Google has an incentive to exaggerate.
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I wonder if they say people should be careful with Chrome
they don't have to! they microsoft explorered that shit
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Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.
FWIW I'm not seeing this on the Play Store for Firefox 136.0.1 on my Pixel 8a, and I'm not seeing any warnings on Beta or Nightly either:
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Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.
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”?
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Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.
Well, if there was any doubt before, with the weird ToS p.r. dance they were doing last week, now we know, for sure.
I've already switched to LibreWolf on the desktop. Is there a good non-Firefox browser for Android available?
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Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.
You know what they say about people who live in glass houses...
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Like chrome does something different?
That's not the point they're trying to make I think. It's more of an attack on perfection. Like "the alternative is not perfect either so why not just stay with Chrome". It's not a very strong argument in general but it might be enough to keep people from switching.
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How is Mullvad Browser? I know it's based on Firefox but wouldn't imagine they would tolerate this.
It doesn't exist on Android AFAIK, so it's irrelevant here.
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Pretty easy to disable the location app permission or set it to ask every time. Firefox hasn't asked me to enable it since turning it off.
Didn't they also elude to collecting telemetry recently? I know it's up for some debate but, if true, I'm not sure that's a thing we can turn off.
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How is Mullvad Browser? I know it's based on Firefox but wouldn't imagine they would tolerate this.
Mullvad is really for anonymous sessions. It's meant to blend in with every other Mullvad instance on the Net so it helps make users harder to identify. It's not geared towards daily use.
On desktop, I switched to Librewolf and installed the Dark Reader add-on.
I will continue using Firefox on Android because I have absolutely no illusions about my privacy on this fucking thing.
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Iron fox is another option.
