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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 OH3CUF@mastodon.radio to c/librewolf@lemmy.ml
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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 @littlesnitch@mastodon.obdev installed.

#librewolf #telemetry #cybersecurity

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[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 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

[–] teajaygrey@rap.social 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.

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 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.