Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.

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        There is: default search results on FF have always legally been sold to Google, the public didn’t know since there were no terms of service or mention by FF whenever they uploaded the android version on the playstore that their users data would be collected and some be sold. Position is one of the data that may be sold as it could be used by Google to dermine which localised version of the search result is the best one to serve

        And it’s not going to be Google in the future: it could be Bing, startpage, ecosia, qwant etc… As long as someone pays, then the results are sold and there needs to be a warning to users.

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    Are you aware of Firefox’s changes to their privacy policy that has been in the news the past 2 weeks? If not you can easily find articles and youtuve videos on it.

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    Google: “Forcing us to divest Chrome could have impacts on our ability to support Mozilla and their high executive salaries as we own the space with Chrome.”

    Also Google:

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    Wait a second. You’re expecting Google to not FUD? Ha ha ha oh wow. I mean I didn’t actually expect them to do so, but yeah.

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    I had already downloaded and installed Ironfox (FF Android fork) on my phone and have been using it for a week or so. It works identically to FF for android. Ublock Origin is working in Ironfox too.

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    Pretty easy to disable the location app permission or set it to ask every time. Firefox hasn’t asked me to enable it since turning it off.

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      Yeah I’m pretty sure Firefox won’t ask for or use your location, unless a website wants it for some reason (which is almost never a good one).

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        and even then, for me at least, the dialog that pops up is broken and lot of times the “Allow” button literally does nothing

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      Didn’t they also elude to collecting telemetry recently? I know it’s up for some debate but, if true, I’m not sure that’s a thing we can turn off.

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    does anyone actually have a good privacy in mind alternative with sources to back it up?

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    FWIW I’m not seeing this on the Play Store for Firefox 136.0.1 on my Pixel 8a, and I’m not seeing any warnings on Beta or Nightly either:

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    How is Mullvad Browser? I know it’s based on Firefox but wouldn’t imagine they would tolerate this.

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      Mullvad is really for anonymous sessions. It’s meant to blend in with every other Mullvad instance on the Net so it helps make users harder to identify. It’s not geared towards daily use.

      On desktop, I switched to Librewolf and installed the Dark Reader add-on.

      I will continue using Firefox on Android because I have absolutely no illusions about my privacy on this fucking thing.

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        GrapheneOS is pretty good, as a more private alternative to Android, though the downside is that it’s only available for Pixel phones. I bought a used one on ebay.

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          I wonder if Square would still work, for example? I haven’t flashed open source ROMs on my phone since like 2012.

          Honestly though, I just consider the phone a lost cause when it comes to privacy & use it accordingly. Uncle Googs is always watching, even when the damn thing is turned off.

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            the thing about degoogled OS is lack of SafetyNet support and it is important for banking apps.

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                  The bank doesn’t need to manually support GrapheneOS, the app just needs to behave appropriately - which, as you can see from that list, the overwhelming majority of them do.

                  If my bank stops supporting it, then I will move banks. But I doubt it will ever really become an issue.

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              Thx, that’s exactly my concern as I remember it being an issue when I was flashing ROMs in the past.