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@tilvids Because I hate having fun and I use librewolf instead

@tilvids @mozilla And if we could just get mozilla to actually turn off telemetry when a user changes the setting, that'd be nice. I love #firefox and I'll never not use it. But the fact that I have to go into about:config to *actually* turn off the telemetry, that's kind of shady. Not nearly as shady as #google is, no, but it's not complete transparency.

@thelinuxfraud @tilvids @mozilla

Are you saying the settings in the Preferences -> Privacy & Security don't actually do what they say they do?

Or is there some other thing that gets sent besides this?

@smallsees I'm not 100% certain if it's this telemetry or not, but they sure as hell have a lot more telemetry enabled than just those options. If you go into about:config and search for 'telemetry' then you'll see a bunch of telemetry enabled.

They even have telemetry that tells them if the user has turned telemetry on/off.

@thelinuxfraud telemetry _gathering_ isn't necessarily bad. it's telemetry _uploading_ that you should be concerned about.

what do you see in `about:telemetry`?
@smallsees

@thelinuxfraud @smallsees Librewolf has no telemetry by default. I use it alongside normal Firefox with those settings disabled, but didn't feel the need to dig into about:config to completely nuke all their telemetry like I used to.

@ionisland Oh yeah I like Librewolf as well. There's also that Mullvad Browser too that came out not too long ago.

@tilvids What's the point if Firefox is going to implement Manifest V3 anyway down the road?

I guess you forgot that Mozilla's primary funder is you guessed it, Google.

@joeo10 @tilvids

Firefox is in support of both MV2 and MV3, old and next extensions all the way.

@vintprox @tilvids The big question is will they and other Chromium (non-Chrome) browsers support V2 long term?

Don't hold your breath on that.

@tilvids @mozilla I mostly use Firefox, but sometimes I use the DuckDuckGo browser.

@tilvids @mozilla
– It doesn’t passthrough H.265 video to the OS for decoding, for invalid reasons;
– It doesn’t use the system spell checker;