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The first thing I do on any new Firefox install is remove Pocket and Hello off the toolbar. I'm pretty sure most people do the same. In fact, I'm struggling to

• chme 10y ago
  Hmm... I think "Hello" doesn't even show per default, at least on my machine. Or I cannot remember removing it. I think the problem with "Hello" is more of a marketing and publicity one. Nobody uses it because they aren't being made aware of it.
  • jhasse 10y ago
    In my experience the problem with Hello is that it's too buggy. I found appear.in to be a lot more reliable.
  • chris_wot 10y ago
    Nobody uses it because nobody asked for it.
    • lucb1e 10y ago
      Nobody asked for a telephone, they asked for faster horses.
      • edraferi 10y ago
        > Nobody asked for an [automobile], they asked for faster horses. FTFY, assuming you're looking for the Henry Ford reference. People actually DID ask for the telephone. It was a natural extension of the widely deployed telegraph system.
        • lucb1e 10y ago
          That makes sense, I think you're right.
        • bnt 10y ago
          Maybe the OP was thinking of this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_Express https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_Express
• Sylos 10y ago
  It's a video-call service which utilizes WebRTC...
• pmontra 10y ago
  And disable WebRTC because of local IP address leakage. Check yours at http://net.ipcalf.com/ http://net.ipcalf.com/ :-)
  • daurnimator 10y ago
    why is the local ip considered private information? 99% of people are going to be in 192.168.1.0/24 or 10.1.1.0/24. so it only takes 508 guesses.... not to mention that everyone is 127.0.0.1.
    • ultramancool 10y ago
      Local IP will remain consistent across sessions and so can be used to identify you as certain device at a given public IP.
    • pmontra 10y ago
      They also see my IPv6 address and all of that make fingerprinting more accurate. Real world example https://webrtchacks.com/dear-ny-times/ https://webrtchacks.com/dear-ny-times/
    • cpeterso 10y ago
      A site can very reliably identify you (across browsers, even) if it knows your public and private IP addresses. Your public IP address identifies which organization or network you're in and your private IP address identifies which machine within that organization or network you are using.
      • daurnimator 10y ago
        90% of the time I use IPv6. where I just have a global IP on every device. Identifies me directly (until I grab a new ipv6 address)
  • annnnd 10y ago
    Seriously?!? Incompetence... Thanks for writing this, disabled. EDIT: FF: about:config, media.peerconnection.enabled => false