yup, for logging errors in the browser. imagine having to close every complaint from users because you don’t know what they were doing when something went wrong :(
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world
on 05 Feb 19:06
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Oooh, got it.
ken@discuss.tchncs.de
on 04 Feb 15:51
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MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world
on 05 Feb 14:41
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Forks also contain trackers, the best you can do today is use the browsers with TC on your phone.
IronFox also has these trackers listed. Tor also has them.
No it’s false, TorBrowsers, Librewolf and IronFox doesn’t contains telemetry.
Just because some browsers are forks doesn’t mean they contain telemetry.
The code is open-source, so anyone can see it by taking a look.
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world
on 06 Feb 03:12
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The screenshot in the post is from IronFox.
ken@discuss.tchncs.de
on 06 Feb 12:59
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The screenshot in the post is from IronFox.
It’s not, though? Let me guess, it’s from some tool or page doing static analysis on the APK and reporting results? Please include a link or reference to actual source when reporting in the future.
So, Firefox contains a library that can be used for reporting telemetry to Mozilla. When you download Firefox from Mozilla, this is enabled and pointing to Mozilla servers. After reading Privacy Notice shouldn’t be a surprise.
When you install one of the fork that disables telemetry (IronFox, LibreWolf, Konform Browser at least do it this way), they will configure the build such that the endpoints are never called. Mozilla are actually reasonable enough that this is supported, documented, and reasonably straightforward for those bothering to build FF from source.
So yes, when you download IronFox it contains a library that could be used for Mozilla Telemetry. It’s just that it’s never used to do so (assuming no bugs).
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Yes, it has had telemetry for as long as I can remember. You can see the collected data at about:telemetry and you can turn it off in the settings.
Its also disabled in the secure soft forks like librewolf et al.
Ironfox says “about:telemetry” is a unavaliable URL.
Some limited telemetry makes sense so devs can know what to work on
They also can see if a new piece of code is crashing all over the place.
Telemetry != tracking
Happy cake day!
Happy cake day, though.
…or not, dunno if Cake Day is also a thing to wish happy for here.
Telemetry in FF is nothing new, but you can disable it.
yup, for logging errors in the browser. imagine having to close every complaint from users because you don’t know what they were doing when something went wrong :(
Oooh, got it.
Find out for yourself!
codeberg.org/…/browser-network-insights
Usage details for running locally under “Testing procedure” -> “Basic test environment usage”
Previously posted on this community here: lemmy.ca/post/59519788
It seems that the new Konform browser is better than librewolf.
skavau is a clown
OK.
There is message for those of you in sibling thread!
discuss.tchncs.de/comment/23650139
Old news, install Librewolf.
Forks also contain trackers, the best you can do today is use the browsers with TC on your phone. IronFox also has these trackers listed. Tor also has them.
No it’s false, TorBrowsers, Librewolf and IronFox doesn’t contains telemetry.
Just because some browsers are forks doesn’t mean they contain telemetry.
The code is open-source, so anyone can see it by taking a look.
The screenshot in the post is from IronFox.
It’s not, though? Let me guess, it’s from some tool or page doing static analysis on the APK and reporting results? Please include a link or reference to actual source when reporting in the future.
So, Firefox contains a library that can be used for reporting telemetry to Mozilla. When you download Firefox from Mozilla, this is enabled and pointing to Mozilla servers. After reading Privacy Notice shouldn’t be a surprise.
When you install one of the fork that disables telemetry (IronFox, LibreWolf, Konform Browser at least do it this way), they will configure the build such that the endpoints are never called. Mozilla are actually reasonable enough that this is supported, documented, and reasonably straightforward for those bothering to build FF from source.
So yes, when you download IronFox it contains a library that could be used for Mozilla Telemetry. It’s just that it’s never used to do so (assuming no bugs).
That doesn’t mean it’s true, you have access to the source code and you can see it’s false.
gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox