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There. Is. Not. A. Single. Browser. That. Values. Your. Privacy.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 years ago

      You would have to use wireshark or some other software to look at the actual data being sent. I’m not 100% sure. Likely the first one is just checking to see if you have telemetry enabled or something. Like I said, you can’t just assume all of your data is being sent because it’s phoning Firefox domains. You need to pick apart the traffic. It could literally just be sending (user has telemetry disabled) and that’s it. You don’t know. Firefox is open source. If it was sending massive amounts of user info despite telemetry heing turned off then it would be fucking obvious and you’d hear about it everywhere. You could try posting in a firefox community and asking if anyone knows. I’d be interested too

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          Sorry for linking to a Reddit thread, but looks like at least the first domain you listed is for checking blocklists and extensions:

          https://www.reddit.com/r/waterfox/comments/fwc2sf/shavarservicesmozilla_and/

          https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Admin

          None of these seem suspicious or privacy-invasive. Like I said, the browser is doing a bunch of shit in the background. You have to actually look at the traffic being sent.

          Believe me, i’m the same way. If I see an app sending out domain requests, I get automatically sketched out. But if you take a step back, and really try to research what these domains are for, you’ll see that most (not all of them) are just normal data that you need for the software to function.

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          Can you send me the link where people were trying to figure those 2 out?

          EDIT: Nvm I found what these are. Check my other comment.

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      https://pi-hole.net/ whatever site you want from everything on your network.
      ublock origin can be set to do so as well for browser that isn’t a chromium reskin.
      But be aware blocking traffic to a site doesn’t care about “but the update I wanted” and such.