Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.
i mean it's just because you can grant websites location data and toggle telemetry.
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Deactivate from settings Have https always on, protection against tracking on strict, data collection and daily ping on off.
And that's it.
"Quick! Jump to chrome instead!" - Google spokesperson
Fennec is great on Android
Firefox engines have telemetry since old ages. Do you know what even crazier ??? even other firefox browser like fennec has Mozilla telemetry.
PSA : disable it with Blocker (ROOT) for more privacy
It has a mozilla telemetry component, but that doesn't mean that it's necessarily reporting to mozilla - which wouldn't make much sense anyway - nor that it actually functions at all. Most telemetry components in Firefox can't simply be deleted because it causes stuff to break, so they are replaced with stubs that don't actually do anything.
Friendship ended with Firefox. Waterfox is my new best friend ❤️
IceCat.
Unfortunately I am primarily an android user, as I always have my phone with me.
I shall give it a go for desktop at some point though
Ironfox seems to work well on Android.
Been using Libre Wolf, no issues so far. Fuck Firefox
Does libre wolf have an android app?
Fennec but I think it still shares some data
Thanks for that
IronFox is the closest alternative. F-Droid repo here:
Dead link 😢
Do you have F-Droid installed? Not to pull a docker, but it is opening for me on 2 separate devices.
Thank you
That's a regular notification, which would happen for any application whose data policy is changed on the Play Store page. These policy are as declared by the app publisher. This would be the same for any application that didn't check that "sharing data with third party" box earlier, then checked it later on.
Well, there seem to be some good safe alternatives. I am currently switching from Firefox to Vivaldi, for example.
Isn't Vivaldi a chromium browser?
Hmm I didn't know that. I was looking for more data privacy. However, there seem to be good alternatives.
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