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It 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
by m463 1y ago
It 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