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Firefox is fine, what are they on about? I'm not going to switch to Chrome because Firefox is a few percent away from perfect. Firefox desktop recently added ta
by ahartmetz 1y ago
Firefox is fine, what are they on about? I'm not going to switch to Chrome because Firefox is a few percent away from perfect. Firefox desktop recently added tab groups and it's a fantastic feature.
- m463 1y agoIt phones home, a lot, from the moment you install it. It has plenty of connections to google too. The good thing is that the source code is mostly* out there and you or someone else can figure out what it's doing. [*] don't know about drm stuff
- ahartmetz 1y agoWhat does it phone home about?
- baobun 1y agoEveryone asking this should MitM their own browser and take a look into the requests. Eye-opening and pretty straightforward with e.g. mitmproxy. Strip TLS with a temporarily trusted self-signed cert to get the whole picture.
- gxnxcxcx 1y agoThere's shady shenanigans from the moment you download the Firefox installer, before you even install it. Each Firefox download has a unique identifier (2022): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30715163 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30715163