@any1 Would love your thoughts on this Sword of Light’s post -
I think it is just beating a dead horse at this point, and this comes up every so often.
I don’t see the point in adding a feature that allows users to worsen their security for a supposed privacy benefit. If this gets introduced, someone will make a Reddit post titled “How to make LibreWolf actually private and solve world hunger by doing this,” which will recommend various backwards steps where less knowledgeable users end up not receiving updates to the actually useful features that have a purpose and aren’t just “connections = bad.” It seems like these people want Tor Browser without using Tor Browser, given the kinds of threats they list.
Thanks for replying!
I am just an average tech savvy-ish privacy focused/aware user, not a coder working on an open source browser like you, so excuse my ignorance but…isn’t zero telemetry a good thing? Something a user would want in a browser? I pretty sure Mullvad Browser mentions it about their browser and that is a big thing the Orion browser dev talks about or hypes.
From a user perspective, when I open my browser I want no one to know but me ideally.
What connections/phoning home is Librewolf making and for what purpose? And if I turn them off are you saying I won’t get updates? Even if update via terminal and the repo?
Is there a way to turn off the telemetry?
Seems like you missed my link in the post above: Frequently Asked Questions – LibreWolf
Telemetry is already turned off during the build.
Ok. Thanks!
Makes sense.
I will have to look into (and compare) what connections Mullvad Browser makes, as that seems to be one of the best and most recommended privacy focused browsers.
They make similar connections.