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I mean, of course the browser knows its own version, this is totally not dependent on user data. And you already give away your OS when you download it, right?
by 2bitencryption 7y ago
I mean, of course the browser knows its own version, this is totally not dependent on user data. And you already give away your OS when you download it, right? Of course it knows what OS it's executing on.
I honestly think that can still be truthfully called "No data or telemetry."
> "You don't have to worry about any tracking or usage information about what you do inside YOUR browser"
That still holds up, if all it sends is info the browser already knows about itself.
- mrob 7y agoIt's still telemetry. It's irrelevant what the browser "knows about itself", because the browser is not the organization receiving the data. You do not automatically "give away your OS" when you download. User agent strings can be set to whatever you like, and you can run the software on a different system from the one used to download it. If the Waterfox developers want to track usage they should request the user's permission, like Debian does with their opt-in Popularity Contest software.
- mirimir 7y agoWell, Debian knows whether you're using x86 or x64. Also, do we know whether Waterfox gets a custom OS report, or just uses the user agent string?