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0 pointsBelenusMordred5y ago0 comments

Chromes "Software Reporter Tool" basically scans your whole computer and sends that data off to Google/NSA. It's literal spyware.

Firefox doesn't do this.

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Instead Firefox uploads your geographical location to their servers every time it starts up. And before you ask, this telemetry cannot be stopped.

And when you finally manage to do some therapeutic dissonance from the above default behaviour.

Whenever you use the inbuilt DoH on Firefox, FF shares this stats with Cloudflare too.

Thankfully geographic location is simple on the internet

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0 pointsBelenusMordred5y ago0 comments

Chromes "Software Reporter Tool" basically scans your whole computer and sends that data off to Google/NSA. It's literal spyware.

Firefox doesn't do this.

Instead Firefox uploads your geographical location to their servers every time it starts up. And before you ask, this telemetry cannot be stopped.

And when you finally manage to do some therapeutic dissonance from the above default behaviour.

Whenever you use the inbuilt DoH on Firefox, FF shares this stats with Cloudflare too.

Thankfully geographic location is simple on the internet

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse