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Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android

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Re: Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android

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You include an untrusted, proprietary binary from Google. Not directly, but as a recursive dependency: com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics So, yes, you give data to Google. The Google analytics dependency you include could literally be malware, and you could not test, or know. And you never know if it doesn’t just decide to steal your data and transmit it all, be it by Google’s decision or because an NSL w…

Because that library is there does not mean that we are giving data to Google. It does not even mean that it is active or that it is sending anything. This is a very strange conclusion that you present. I feel you are just twisting and turning to come to an unfavourable outcome here. Even Google has decent data collection policies. They will not randomly make an application collect data without the developer opting i…

It is disappointing that it seems the Mozilla representative on this thread does not appreciate that Google cannot be trusted on this. Anyone who has been a Chrome user for a period of time, and tried to use its privacy settings to stay private, will have noticed that they do not observe their own policies. Their entire business is based on monitoring people to improve targeting of advertising. I am technical (former CTO) and have put a lot of time into carefully tweaking settings for privacy, and there is no question that Google "cheat" on this.

I thought Firefox Focus was a great step forward in privacy, but I am dismayed to see it includes Google code, that it uses a third party analytics library, and that the developers do not see either of those as a big problem.

Re: Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android

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Yes, it has.

Portable Apps Man!!! Also, why the blog post then? I've had this app on my phone for many months now.

I think it's in conjunction with the 1.1 release which adds a few things.
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