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How is this any different from a standard Firefox install with telemetry turned off
by diegocg 5y ago
How is this any different from a standard Firefox install with telemetry turned off
- puyoxyz 5y agoIt also comes preconfigured with a lot of good settings for privacy, like resist fingerprinting, 3rd party cookie stuff, etc... I know you can turn this stuff on manually but it's convenient to have a fork that does it for you and turns off Mozilla's telemetry completely
- user3939382 5y agoHopefully it's a lot different. If you proxy Firefox you'll see that even with everything turned off that you possibly can through the UI, Firefox phones home many times, especially during launch and exit.
- mgbmtl 5y agoIt would be nice to back that up a bit more. I'm genuinely curious. For what it's worth, some of the startup checks are to see whether the user is on a public wifi with a captive portal, and talk to a Mozilla service rather than Google. Other checks are for upgrades, or Firefox Sync, if enabled.
- user3939382 5y agoThere’s a great macOS app called Charles Proxy that you can use to inspect this sort of thing which is a little quicker to get going and use than the CLI equivalent (mitmproxy I think it’s called).
- EE84M3i 5y agoI would be really surprised if the Firefox developers refused a patch adding a new about:config setting for whatever you're talking about.
- sundarurfriend 5y agoWhen they get around to it in ten years.