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addons-frontend
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8 | 11 | |
184 | 531 | |
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0.0 | 9.8 | |
about 4 years ago | 4 days ago | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
Mozilla Public License 2.0 | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
activity-stream
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The illusion of free choice
Stock Firefox has trackers built into every last part of it. For example, have you ever click on one of the shortcuts on the default new tab? The details of that click is sent off to Mozilla's servers.
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take your daily medicine guys
Also, even things as simple as interacting with your new tab is collected and sent to Mozilla's servers.
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Is it safe to use a custom startpage privacy-wise?
Being FOSS doesn't make it trust worthy. For example, the firefox home tab is entirely open source, but it will report tons of metrics, which are all opt-out, not opt-in.
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Why do people keep acting like firefox is a privacy respecting browser?
You also say that FF uses this data for "features that do not serve the user in any meaningful way." I argue this isn't true - all data sent back is used for your security to update your blocklists, for your convenience to pre-load websites, or for Mozilla to know how to continue developing the browser (which is the most straight-forward to disable). They (say that they) don't use any of the data for monetary gain: ** Mozilla never shares data with any third party.** (this is also the source you linked in the OP).
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Based browsers
Performing a search, Clicking a top site item, Deleting an item from history, Blocking a site Bookmarking a link, Removing a bookmark from a link, Opening a link in a new window, Opening a link in a new private window, Opening the new tab preferences pane, Closing the new tab preferences pane, Acknowledging a section disclaimer, Adding or editing a new TopSite, Requesting a custom screenshot preview, Session end, Impression stats, Click/block/save_to_pocket ping, Addon initialization failure, Domain affinity calculation.
- Mozilla Firefox düşündüğümüz kadar gizlilik dostu değil!
addons-frontend
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take your daily medicine guys
They've admitted to it in their github. It even happens when you've changed the default search engine, and set the new tab to about:blank.
- Chrome users
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Why do people keep acting like firefox is a privacy respecting browser?
It may be true that browsing about:addons (as described in the cited source) pings Google analytics (untested by me), but the source bug report also links to this description of legal contracts between Mozilla and Google that clearly show that Google is prevented from mining or sharing this data. Google may stil have access to the data (couldn't find a reference), but I'm sure UBO has a thing or two to say about that.
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Based browsers
Firefox has google analytics built in to spy on users.
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No more updates to Firefox's Blocked Add-ons list?
As for "why", the current blocklist is able to scale a lot more than the previous versions. Combined with the fact that this page wasn't super useful per se, we decided to not recreate such a page. See also: https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/9216
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addons.mozilla.org triggers XPI download
This looks like a bug. I filed an issue for that and submitted a patch.
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58% of Hacker News, Reddit and tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
If you're referring to Firefox using Google Analytics for the Firefox Add-ons frontend, as of July 2017, Firefox has disabled Google Analytics for any browser that has Do Not Track enabled.
https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785#issue...
This change was made in response to pressure from HN readers, so thanks to everyone for that.
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Problems I Have with GNU Philosophy
How does something being open source inherently make it more ethical? Is an OSS that spys on all of your information more ethical than a proprietary software that doesn't? It's not like it's an impossibility for OSS to be malicious!
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You know what, Fuck you
Because Firefox is also horrible, THEY USE GOOGLE ANALYTICS
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Mozilla should add this feature from the Chrome Web Store!
I made an issue for this on GitHub. Give it a thumbs up if you're interested! https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/10087
What are some alternatives?
privacytests.org - Source code for privacytests.org. Includes browser testing code and site rendering.
Nebulo - Mirror of https://git.frostnerd.com/PublicAndroidApps/smokescreen. Feel free to contribute here as well.
iceraven-browser - Iceraven Browser
Pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements
fdroiddata
Firefox-52-ESR-legacy-addon - [WIP] A curated list and XPI files of Mozilla Firefox browser extensions, addons, themes from addons.mozilla.org, before XUL-based purge blackout
google-analytics-proxy - Google Analytics Proxy
GoatCounter - Easy web analytics. No tracking of personal data.
tracker-control-android - TrackerControl Android: monitor and control trackers and ads.
standards-positions
marker - Highlight the Web