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Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

i mean it's just because you can grant websites location data and toggle telemetry.

[–] IZZI@mander.xyz 11 points 3 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.

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 48 points 4 hours ago

"Quick! Jump to chrome instead!" - Google spokesperson

[–] TomasEkeli@programming.dev 5 points 3 hours ago

Fennec is great on Android

[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour 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.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 24 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Friendship ended with Firefox. Waterfox is my new best friend ❤️

[–] uis@lemm.ee 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately I am primarily an android user, as I always have my phone with me.

I shall give it a go for desktop at some point though

[–] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 1 points 28 minutes ago

Ironfox seems to work well on Android.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 51 points 8 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.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Pot Calling Kettle... etc... 🤣

[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 24 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

I know, right, the fucking balls of Google to fucking say this

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[–] devedeset@lemm.ee 62 points 11 hours ago (10 children)

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.

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