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What browser would you suggest instead? I feel a bit cornered, especially now that literally every alternative is based on chromium.
What's wrong with chromium?
Chromium phones home, hard.
Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming
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Re: Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Just try setting your Firefox browser to a blank page with no requests on startup and watching the Wireshark log if you think otherwise OK, so I just did this, and I don't really see what the issue is. Looking at Wireshark, I see requests for: * detectportal.firefox.com, which is used to detect whether you're connected to a captive portal network and need to sign in before you can connect to the internet. As far as…
>I don't really see a problem with any of these? You seriously don't have an issue with being fingerprinted and tracked every single time you open an application on your computer? The point is that there should be zero. I should not have a single outgoing network request triggered by opening a web browser to a blank page until interacting in some way. The fact that we've lost this as a standard is terrifying to me.
You can configure Firefox such that there is zero outgoing connection. That's better than everything else.
Re: Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming
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Brave seems ok, has a pretty good built in adblocker
They're remarkably scummy. They swapped out advertisements for a cryptocurrency scam. Maybe the browser itself is OK. I've never used it.
You can use Brave without caring about cryptocurrency at all.
Re: Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming
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> Just try setting your Firefox browser to a blank page with no requests on startup and watching the Wireshark log if you think otherwise OK, so I just did this, and I don't really see what the issue is. Looking at Wireshark, I see requests for: * detectportal.firefox.com, which is used to detect whether you're connected to a captive portal network and need to sign in before you can connect to the internet. As far as…
>I don't really see a problem with any of these? You seriously don't have an issue with being fingerprinted and tracked every single time you open an application on your computer? The point is that there should be zero. I should not have a single outgoing network request triggered by opening a web browser to a blank page until interacting in some way. The fact that we've lost this as a standard is terrifying to me.
The whole point of Firefox _is_ to make network requests. All of the features above aren't leaking your user data or fingerprinting you, they're assisting you in what the applications purpose is... to make network requests. Not to mention firefox is an open-source project, so you could go look at all the network communication it makes when it starts up. All of these options are configurable anyways.
I think you're looking in the wrong direction. Try the closed-source (or partial closed source) operating systems you interact with on a daily basis: Windows, Android, macOS, iOS- that's where you'll find the "fingerprinted and tracked every single time you open" sort of thing you speak of. :)
Re: Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming
#35In a similar vein, I'd appreciate it if Mozilla would stop using updates to Firefox as a mechanism to re-enable misfeatures I've explicitly disabled like Pocket integration and the "recommend X feature|extension while you are browsing but don't forget we totally respect your privacy!" settings. :-/
I always create and use Firefox profiles with a custom user.js preference file. Here's a great one: https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js
Re: Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming
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> Just try setting your Firefox browser to a blank page with no requests on startup and watching the Wireshark log if you think otherwise OK, so I just did this, and I don't really see what the issue is. Looking at Wireshark, I see requests for: * detectportal.firefox.com, which is used to detect whether you're connected to a captive portal network and need to sign in before you can connect to the internet. As far as…
>I don't really see a problem with any of these? You seriously don't have an issue with being fingerprinted and tracked every single time you open an application on your computer? The point is that there should be zero. I should not have a single outgoing network request triggered by opening a web browser to a blank page until interacting in some way. The fact that we've lost this as a standard is terrifying to me.
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Re: Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming
#37In a similar vein, I'd appreciate it if Mozilla would stop using updates to Firefox as a mechanism to re-enable misfeatures I've explicitly disabled like Pocket integration and the "recommend X feature|extension while you are browsing but don't forget we totally respect your privacy!" settings. :-/
How much money does pocket actually generate? It blows my mind that mozilla would pull a java and have us install a figurative toolbar.
Re: Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming
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>I don't really see a problem with any of these? You seriously don't have an issue with being fingerprinted and tracked every single time you open an application on your computer? The point is that there should be zero. I should not have a single outgoing network request triggered by opening a web browser to a blank page until interacting in some way. The fact that we've lost this as a standard is terrifying to me.
You can configure Firefox such that there is zero outgoing connection. That's better than everything else.
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Re: Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming
#39In a similar vein, I'd appreciate it if Mozilla would stop using updates to Firefox as a mechanism to re-enable misfeatures I've explicitly disabled like Pocket integration and the "recommend X feature|extension while you are browsing but don't forget we totally respect your privacy!" settings. :-/
That sounds like a bug to me.
Maybe, but in some similar cases, it's marked as "won't fix": https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502188
If you configure Firefox to not automatically update, and then use, say, a package manager to update it, automatic updates will get re-enabled.
Re: Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming
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> Just try setting your Firefox browser to a blank page with no requests on startup and watching the Wireshark log if you think otherwise OK, so I just did this, and I don't really see what the issue is. Looking at Wireshark, I see requests for: * detectportal.firefox.com, which is used to detect whether you're connected to a captive portal network and need to sign in before you can connect to the internet. As far as…
>I don't really see a problem with any of these? You seriously don't have an issue with being fingerprinted and tracked every single time you open an application on your computer? The point is that there should be zero. I should not have a single outgoing network request triggered by opening a web browser to a blank page until interacting in some way. The fact that we've lost this as a standard is terrifying to me.
Firefox, like most mass market software, is designed for normal people.