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The opposite of privacy: every address you type in Firefox Focus gets sent, live, to Yahoo/Verizon, complete with a User-Agent identifying the request as coming
by semistrophe 10y ago
The opposite of privacy: every address you type in Firefox Focus gets sent, live, to Yahoo/Verizon, complete with a User-Agent identifying the request as coming from Focus, indicating an unusual desire for privacy.
- dictum 10y agoCan you confirm that? If true, is it at least opt-out?
- semistrophe 10y agoUpon further inspection, typing suggests from a hardcoded list: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus/blob/master/Blockzilla/topdomains.txt https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus/blob/master/Blockzil... Gee, thanks for assistance in getting to breitbart.com. WTF??? But if you accidentally press search, yeah, Yahoo/Verizon get it. And there's no opt-out or alternative search engines.
- untog 10y agoSince this user's response to their own comment was killed (not sure why) I'll repeat: this is incorrect. Domains are chosen from a hard-coded list: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus/blob/master/Blockzilla/topdomains.txt https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus/blob/master/Blockzil...
- semistrophe 10y agoThanks for that. Not sure why my original reply was killed. Further info: 1) Appears the Brave browser uses the same hardcoded suggestions list. Why have such a list?! 2) If you are really concerned about privacy this is still a bad option because accidental hit of Go/Search/Enter sends an incomplete address to Verizon/Yahoo -- with no choices to disable this or chose another destination.