LibreWolf – Custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom

Post by krono » Fri, Sep 08, 2023, 8:28 PM UTC

kaba0 wrote: post #140

krono wrote: post #118

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This statement is false. Even with all telemetry disabled (including the option "Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla") and without anything showing on that page, the browser still sends out interaction data by means of so called "pings", URL parameters, etc.

Wow, a browser is making network connections, how dare it. Come on, these things are there so that if you are on "connected" to a network that require some registration, e.g. an airport, then you can actually be forwarded to that registration page. Like what do you even think, Mozilla people are sitting on top of all that sweet PING www.mozilla.org (3.161.119.172) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from server-3-161-119-…

Post by krono » Fri, Sep 08, 2023, 8:42 PM UTC

kaba0 wrote: post #152

krono wrote: post #151

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It makes these connections even when all the things mentioned in the official "How to stop Firefox from making automatic connections"[1] are disabled. This includes the captive portal detection you allude to. Regardless: The browser asks me if I allow it to make these connections. I tell it in unmistakable and irrevocable terms that I do not. The browser makes these connections anyway. The problem was never the conne…

Am I really the troll, or those who bring down the only remaining truly libre, open-source browser engine over stupid nitpicky bullshits, while not contributing anything positive to improve on the status?

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 08, 2023, 9:40 PM UTC

torstenvl wrote: post #144

dralley wrote: post #109

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>The fact of the matter is that Google is their biggest financial contributor, and that means by proxy Google can influence them. I don't have any examples right off the bat, Exhibit A. Fine, it's a potential conflict of interest. But there's still a step between having a potential conflict of interest and being compromised by Google / influenced by proxy. You don't get to jump from point A to point B. That's FUD. Th…

> Simultaneously: "how dare they work on something other than Firefox even if it makes money" and "how dare they monetize Firefox" and "how dare they take so much money from Google" Yes. Perhaps you've heard of the concept of a non-profit? Specifically a foundation, organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes? https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/501 , subsection (c)(3).

Post by joveian » Fri, Sep 08, 2023, 10:51 PM UTC

funOtter wrote: post #38

ac130kz wrote: post #35

Just use a custom user.js, LibreWolf doesn't deliver much beyond a few major tweaks and a logo.

do you have an example or directions?

Post by NegativeK » Fri, Sep 08, 2023, 11:38 PM UTC

Firmwarrior wrote: post #148

kaba0 wrote: post #134

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Ridiculous comment

Everything I said is 100% true. There are a lot of people on this very site working in adtech who don't feel like they're doing anything wrong at all and use the exact same logic that people use to justify "telemetry". In their mind, they're making a better product and a wealthier, more productive world in the process. You have literally no logical or moral delimiter between how Firefox spies on me to improve Firefox…