Well, it might be the fanboyism hitting hard. I also like the fact that Mozilla / Firefox exists but it isn’t the silver bullet everyone paints.
People speak very good thing about Firefox but they like to hide and avoid the shady stuff. Firefox is better than most, no double there, but at the same time they do have some shady finances and they also do stuff like adding unique IDs to each installation. I just see someone commenting “oh but download from the FTP and you won’t be tracked”… seriously? Isn’t adding an ID to the thing available on the installer that 95% people are going to use without opt-out or any warning crossing a line? There’s no justification for this.
Firefox does is a LOT of calling home. Just fire Wireshark alongside it and see how much calling home and even calling 3rd parties it does. From basic ocsp requests to calling Firefox servers and a 3rd party company that does analytics they do it all, even after disabling most stuff in Settings and config like the OP did.
I know other browsers do it as well, except for Ungoogled or LibreWolf and because of that I’m sticking with them. I would like to avoid programs that need no snitch whenever I open them.
Well, it might be the fanboyism hitting hard. I also like the fact that Mozilla / Firefox exists but it isn’t the silver bullet everyone paints.
People speak very good thing about Firefox but they like to hide and avoid the shady stuff. Firefox is better than most, no double there, but at the same time they do have some shady finances and they also do stuff like adding unique IDs to each installation. I just see someone commenting “oh but download from the FTP and you won’t be tracked”… seriously? Isn’t adding an ID to the thing available on the installer that 95% people are going to use without opt-out or any warning crossing a line? There’s no justification for this.
Firefox does is a LOT of calling home. Just fire Wireshark alongside it and see how much calling home and even calling 3rd parties it does. From basic ocsp requests to calling Firefox servers and a 3rd party company that does analytics they do it all, even after disabling most stuff in Settings and config like the OP did.
I know other browsers do it as well, except for Ungoogled or LibreWolf and because of that I’m sticking with them. I would like to avoid programs that need no snitch whenever I open them.