Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.

  • IZZI@mander.xyzEnglish
    4·
    22 minutes ago

    Deactivate from settings Have https always on, protection against tracking on strict, data collection and daily ping on off.

    And that’s it.

  • devilish666@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 hours ago

    Firefox engines have telemetry since old ages. Do you know what even crazier ??? even other firefox browser like fennec has Mozilla telemetry.


    PSA : disable it with Blocker (ROOT) for more privacy

  • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
    491·
    6 hours ago

    That’s a regular notification, which would happen for any application whose data policy is changed on the Play Store page. These policy are as declared by the app publisher. This would be the same for any application that didn’t check that “sharing data with third party” box earlier, then checked it later on.

  • Adiemus@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    1 hour ago

    Well, there seem to be some good safe alternatives. I am currently switching from Firefox to Vivaldi, for example.

  • datendefekt@feddit.orgEnglish
    241·
    4 hours ago

    So if Mozilla wants to monetize location data, what does this mean for all the custom ROMs that use Mozilla’s location provider instead of Google’s?

    This might mean that we would have no true free location provider left.

    Edit: just was thinking, what does this mean for Firefox forks that also use Mozilla’s location service?

    • Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.mlEnglish
      12·
      2 hours ago

      So if Mozilla wants to monetize location data, what does this mean for all the custom ROMs that use Mozilla’s location provider instead of Google’s?

      Nothing, because they dont sell location data, this just seems like a routine warning that pops up when ToS and Privacy policy changes, and since they have clarified their position on this matter, (not to mention the lack of alternative FOSS web engines). We really shouldn’t let this bother us

      Of course i might be wrong and it may come out that Mozilla has turned heel(lot of heel turning happening lately)

    • anasTheCatwanji@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      6 hours ago

      wait, mozilla has a location provider? maybe there is open street map, idk what’s the difference between a map and a location provider

      • falcunculus@jlai.luEnglish
        16·
        5 hours ago

        My (probably incomplete) understanding is: phones have a GNSS chip (such as GPS, Galileo, or Glonass), but getting location from that takes a long time and a lot of battery. So they estimate location based on other information such as what cell tower they are connected to and the list of available wi-fi networks. This requires a database with all that info, which Google built through its Street View cars.

        So the location provider is a service to which your phone sends all the info it has and which replies with an estimate of your location; which means it handles a lot of sensitive data.

  • devedeset@lemm.eeEnglish
    612·
    9 hours ago

    As of the latest Chrome update on PC, they have dropped support for uBlock. You can still technically enable it, but they disabled it by default once you update.

    That got me back to Firefox with breakneck speed.

    • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
      86·
      6 hours ago

      Frankly speaking, calling out Google and Chrome, then moving to Firefox while Mozilla have been doing it’s best Google impression for years now is not that great of a plan.

      I wonder how long Firefox will be ok with all that, since Mozilla bought that advertisement business a while ago.

      • JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        11·
        4 hours ago

        The main problem is that building a web browser is extremely difficult and everyone else uses Google’s version of WebKit. So there’s no alternatives: it’s either Google or Mozilla. Forks don’t count because if some functionality that end users need is deprecated, nobody will maintain it and it will just disappear once it’s removed from the main codebase

        • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
          13·
          2 hours ago

          building a web browser is extremely difficult and everyone else uses Google’s version of WebKit

          To be fair it is based on KHTML. One of projects KDE can spend that extra money on and resurrect.

          • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            2 hours ago

            Bring back Konqueror too while at it!

            Edit: Apparently it still exists, it just isn’t the default on any mainstream distros anymore

    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeEnglish
      122·
      9 hours ago

      Hopefully soon Librewolf, Fennec F-droid and other forks will become mainstream.

      I haven’t switched to Librewolf on pc yet; hoping that turning off the telemetry/etc options in ff is enough, but I’m starting to think it might not be long.

      • FrChazzz@lemm.eeEnglish
        42·
        8 hours ago

        I switched over to LibreWolf recently. I discovered Vivaldi just a few hours before I learned about the Manifest v3 stuff for Chromium (which is a shame because I actually LOVED Vivaldi). I really want to try Zen Browser, but I’m using old, 2011-era Macs (running Ubuntu 24.04 on one) and it won’t install. LibreWolf is great because of its clean, minimal design and absolute privacy-forward thinking. I’ve enjoyed it so far (and I’m only running it on the Ubuntu machine).

      • devedeset@lemm.eeEnglish
        31·
        8 hours ago

        I want to switch over further but so far I’ve had so much else going on that data privacy hasn’t taken a priority. Things are getting weird now so it is time for a priority change.

    • utopiah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 hours ago

      Genuine question to see if the downvotes are justified or not : are you implying Chrome is a good browser and if so, why?

      • venotic@kbin.melroy.org
        16·
        1 hour ago

        The downvotes are idiotic fanboys who faithfully clutch Firefox like rosary beads because it isn’t chrome.

        Why the fuck would anyone imply that I think Chrome is any better? It only tells me they’re fucking morons.

  • geography082@lemm.eeEnglish
    32·
    5 hours ago

    Many Linux distributions will need to dig Firefox looks like . I use Fennec btw , and in desktop Libre wolf since a long time.