Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.

  • umbraroze@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    3 hours ago

    Wait a second. You’re expecting Google to not FUD? Ha ha ha oh wow. I mean I didn’t actually expect them to do so, but yeah.

  • Psythik@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 hour ago

    The DDG app shows no 3rd party tracking attempts made by Firefox at all… So far…

  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
    23·
    5 hours ago

    Google: “Forcing us to divest Chrome could have impacts on our ability to support Mozilla and their high executive salaries as we own the space with Chrome.”

    Also Google:

  • IZZI@mander.xyzEnglish
    291·
    10 hours 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
    231·
    11 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

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      13·
      6 hours ago

      Sending telemetry like crashes and what features you use/don’t use isn’t really in the same category as using location data for marketing purposes. It’s a very important distinction to draw.

    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      7·
      8 hours ago

      It has a mozilla telemetry component, but that doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily reporting to mozilla - which wouldn’t make much sense anyway - nor that it actually functions at all. Most telemetry components in Firefox can’t simply be deleted because it causes stuff to break, so they are replaced with stubs that don’t actually do anything.

  • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
    651·
    15 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.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      21·
      6 hours ago

      I don’t get what your comment is getting at. I don’t view this post as saying anything special or unique about the notification. I see it as a warning that Firefox is now doing this.

      • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        5 hours ago

        Have you read all the other replies? “Google mad”, “Google putting Firefox in the dirt”, “False info”, etc.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      15 hours ago

      This is not at all a pot kettle situation, there is no reason to warn about Firefox.

      • Renohren@lemmy.todayEnglish
        11·
        1 hour ago

        There is: default search results on FF have always legally been sold to Google, the public didn’t know since there were no terms of service or mention by FF whenever they uploaded the android version on the playstore that their users data would be collected and some be sold. Position is one of the data that may be sold as it could be used by Google to dermine which localised version of the search result is the best one to serve

        And it’s not going to be Google in the future: it could be Bing, startpage, ecosia, qwant etc… As long as someone pays, then the results are sold and there needs to be a warning to users.

        • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          17 minutes ago

          the public didn’t know

          That’s not true, for many years Firefox was basically financed by Google for being the default search engine, because Google didn’t want Microsoft to monopolize Internet Browsers. Everybody who had the slightest interest knew that.

          But that’s completely irrelevant, it’s a very marginal source of revenue today, and Firefox does not sell user info to Google. So it’s on Google to warn about using Google search.
          The only reason for the change in Firefox privacy terms was for clarification. For instance any information given to Firefox, does not grant Firefox ownership of it. (opposite of for instance Facebook)
          That’s a guarantee of user protection, not the opposite. Firefox has a very limited scope of “using” user data, like for instance storing links with Firefox, so they work across multiple devices.
          There is no “harvesting” of user behavior or information.

          https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/mozilla-rewrites-firefoxs-terms-of-use-after-user-backlash/

  • devedeset@lemm.eeEnglish
    722·
    18 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.

    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeEnglish
      173·
      18 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
        62·
        18 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·
        18 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.

    • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
      89·
      15 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
        16·
        13 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

        • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          9 hours ago

          Yes, I agree. That’s why I’m weirded out by people saying “Firefox bad, use Librewolf” and the like.

          I still think a solution that relies on donation (maybe with some corporate support) would be very good for everyone involved. Unfortunately, Mozilla is not a player in this, so we’re stuck with basically three engines, one that can’t be used, one that’s openly hostile, and one that’s becoming hostile.

          Not great.

        • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
          13·
          11 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
            3·
            11 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