• PonyOfWar@pawb.social
    5·
    17 days ago

    Yes, it has had telemetry for as long as I can remember. You can see the collected data at about:telemetry and you can turn it off in the settings.

  • lime!@feddit.nu
    2·
    17 days ago

    yup, for logging errors in the browser. imagine having to close every complaint from users because you don’t know what they were doing when something went wrong :(

    • WeirdSarah9@lemmy.worldOP
      11·
      16 days ago

      Forks also contain trackers, the best you can do today is use the browsers with TC on your phone. IronFox also has these trackers listed. Tor also has them.

      • Mas@jlai.lu
        3·
        15 days ago

        No it’s false, TorBrowsers, Librewolf and IronFox doesn’t contains telemetry.

        Just because some browsers are forks doesn’t mean they contain telemetry.

        The code is open-source, so anyone can see it by taking a look.

          • ken@discuss.tchncs.de
            2·
            5 days ago

            The screenshot in the post is from IronFox.

            It’s not, though? Let me guess, it’s from some tool or page doing static analysis on the APK and reporting results? Please include a link or reference to actual source when reporting in the future.

            So, Firefox contains a library that can be used for reporting telemetry to Mozilla. When you download Firefox from Mozilla, this is enabled and pointing to Mozilla servers. After reading Privacy Notice shouldn’t be a surprise.

            When you install one of the fork that disables telemetry (IronFox, LibreWolf, Konform Browser at least do it this way), they will configure the build such that the endpoints are never called. Mozilla are actually reasonable enough that this is supported, documented, and reasonably straightforward for those bothering to build FF from source.

            So yes, when you download IronFox it contains a library that could be used for Mozilla Telemetry. It’s just that it’s never used to do so (assuming no bugs).