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WTF - you had only one job and you are failing in it.

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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  • @OH3CUF Yeah, LibreWolf needs to jettison associations with Homebrew too.

    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.

    I've mentioned the same thing to LadyBird devs on the FUTO funding YouTube videos.

    My comments, were removed.

    Not sure if that is due to FUTO being shady a.f. or YouTube being under the convicted monopoly umbrella, but it doesn't leave me with any warm fuzzy feelings aside from affirming that it appears as if the powers that be, are continuing to abuse theirs.

    Anyway, you've been warned.

    Maybe someone will do something about it?

    I've looked into creating MacPorts' Portfiles for both LadyBird and LibreWolf, but couldn't get either project to build from source, which is kind of a prerequisite to making such things easier for others.

    Both projects are severely lacking when it comes to useful documentation for developers and package and port maintainers.

    I'm not exactly "new here" either, I'm probably one of the only people aside from jkh or Kip Macy who ever bothered to build NeXTBSD (basically FreeBSD with launchd, before TrueOS went for OpenRC) from source. Which, also basically had no documentation. At least in that instance it was very similar to FreeBSD, which has a rational build process with which I was already so familiar with I could basically do it without current build instructions.

    @librewolf

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