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What anti-features do Debian's maintainers remove from Firefox, in practice? (Meaning the one they've already been maintaining for a while, a firefox-esr packag
by perihelions 3y ago
What anti-features do Debian's maintainers remove from Firefox, in practice? (Meaning the one they've already been maintaining for a while, a firefox-esr package. There's also an upcoming one for the normal release cadence).
edit: Answering my own question,
https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox#Disabling_automatic_connections https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox#Disabling_automatic_connecti... ("Here is a table of the above parameters and how Debian diverges from the upstream default:")
Looks to me like a fairly small, unimportant delta.
edit #2: I didn't mean to criticize your comment overly strongly! I hope I wasn't the reason you got flagged—I tried to vouch you but I regret that wasn't enough.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoHuh, that's interesting - I've definitely used distro packages that disabled some(?) of the telemetry stuff. If Debian doesn't, I wonder what distro I'm remembering. Or maybe they used to and just don't now.
- perihelions 3y agoIt does disable telemetry! This is the list I linked—it's all different types of automatic network connections, from anonymized telemetry to update checks to speculative connections.