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FF has opt-in to metrics (and I trust Mozilla to honestly anonymize anyway). I wouldn't trust OpenSnitch to stop all the deeply-integrated tracking in Chrome. A

FF has opt-in to metrics (and I trust Mozilla to honestly anonymize anyway). I wouldn't trust OpenSnitch to stop all the deeply-integrated tracking in Chrome. Atom used to have analytics built-in by default, but they switched it to be opt-in (last I checked). I could certainly see using OpenSnitch if you let your system get infected with stuff like Steam games, Skype, or Spotify, sure… Thanks for the answers to my question.

fulafel 10y ago
Nope, FF is opt-out. I just verified this by creating a new profile, the Health Report is enabled by default. I have a recollection that Atom had telemetry checked by default, but I'm not at a computer with Atom installed right now. There's also a big fight about it on the Atom issue tracker, but I can't be bothered to read through it. (https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/4966 https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/4966)
- quadrangle 10y ago
  Okay, but regarding Atom, that thread stared in 2015, and all you had to do was hit END on your keyboard to see "At the current pace of development metrics should be disabled by default starting in Atom 1.11.0." as the last comment in the issue that is closed (or check current Atom behavior). Thanks for the note about FF opt-out, okay.