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Not having to use servers at all is kind of a preference. Why do browsers need to phone home at all?
by junon 5y ago
Not having to use servers at all is kind of a preference. Why do browsers need to phone home at all?
- GhettoComputers 5y agoWhen you use a site, you’re using servers and they have logs. This is unrelated to the browser itself, although ideally it shouldn’t have telemetry. But even so the servers of sites you use will and you can’t control the data collection.
- labawi 5y agoMaybe I am opening a local file? Using a local network resource? On a limited/expensive connection and don't want it auto-updating some BS? Running the browser in kiosk mode as a glorified HTML/CSS/JS GUI for a local app (apparently a thing now)? It's really apparent when I socks proxy into a remote site (via limited 2G) to view a few kB worth of HTML admin page and firefox starts autoupdating a bunch of remote resources.
- junon 5y agoWhen I boot Firefox, that operation should not automatically connect to a server unless I have a default web page set.