Comment by ahartmetz

Comment by ahartmetz 16 hours ago

3 replies

Firefox is fine, what are they on about? I'm not going to switch to Chrome because Firefox is a few percent away from perfect. Firefox desktop recently added tab groups and it's a fantastic feature.

m463 16 hours 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 15 hours ago

    What does it phone home about?

    • baobun 14 hours ago

      Everyone 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.