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Welcome to the official community for LibreWolf.

LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM. If you have any question please visit our FAQ first: https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/

To learn more or to download the browser visit the website: https://librewolf.net/

If you want to contribute head over to our Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/librewolf

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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WTF @librewolf - you had only one job and you are failing in it.

"No telemetry" -> first thing Librewolf does is connect to Mozilla telemetry services.

Found out this by having @[email protected] installed.

#librewolf #telemetry #cybersecurity

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

@OH3CUF Yeah, LibreWolf needs to jettison associations with Homebrew too.

Homebrew enables Google Analytics by default.

Sending telemetry without even warning users to opt out, was a bad look, even before Google was convicted as a monopoly.

I've mentioned the same thing to LadyBird devs on the FUTO funding YouTube videos.

My comments, were removed.

Not sure if that is due to FUTO being shady a.f. or YouTube being under the convicted monopoly umbrella, but it doesn't leave me with any warm fuzzy feelings aside from affirming that it appears as if the powers that be, are continuing to abuse theirs.

Anyway, you've been warned.

Maybe someone will do something about it?

I've looked into creating MacPorts' Portfiles for both LadyBird and LibreWolf, but couldn't get either project to build from source, which is kind of a prerequisite to making such things easier for others.

Both projects are severely lacking when it comes to useful documentation for developers and package and port maintainers.

I'm not exactly "new here" either, I'm probably one of the only people aside from jkh or Kip Macy who ever bothered to build NeXTBSD (basically FreeBSD with launchd, before TrueOS went for OpenRC) from source. Which, also basically had no documentation. At least in that instance it was very similar to FreeBSD, which has a rational build process with which I was already so familiar with I could basically do it without current build instructions.

@librewolf

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Homebrew enables Google Analytics by default. Sending telemetry without even warning users to opt out, was a bad look, even before Google was convicted as a monopoly.

That's not true anymore. All previously saved Google analytics have been deleted and when you install hombrew for the first time you get an info box about how to opt-out.

Source

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@N0x0n when did it change?

Because:

"Opting out

Homebrew analytics helps us maintainers and leaving it on is appreciated. However, if you want to opt out of Homebrew’s analytics, you can set this variable in your environment:

export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1

Alternatively, this will prevent analytics from ever being sent:

brew analytics off"

From the URL you provided, seems the same as it has always been, opt-in by default.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's still opt-in by default, but as I said:

They do not use google analytics anymore
You get a text saying how to opt-out when installing before anything is send to their analytic server

They are also very transparent on what is send. That's actually not that bad.