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Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

I stopped my donations to Mozilla.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

How about turning off data sharing in whole android... Google...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

calyxos here I come

[–] [email protected] 42 points 21 hours ago

Okay, turned it off. If a site needs my location it can ask me and I can politely tell it to fuck off unless it has a warrant.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Isn't that just because Firefox got access to location data because some site asked for it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

Yep. Like a map website...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

commenting cus I also have the same question

[–] [email protected] 175 points 1 day ago

Google warning you about Mozilla is just peak fucking irony

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago

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:

[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 day ago

"Quick! Jump to chrome instead!" - Google spokesperson

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

i mean it's just because you can grant websites location data and toggle telemetry.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

NnnnnoooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOO

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The DDG app shows no 3rd party tracking attempts made by Firefox at all... So far...

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah. People can avoid all this nonsense by installing one simple app... Duck duck go browser.

You don't have to use the browser. It just sits in the background quietly blocking tracking requests from other apps.

It's absolutely horrifying on first use to see how egregious tracking is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

There's also the PersonalDNSFilter which does the equivalent while being a tiny open-source app that serves only for that purpose and also somehow still not getting banned from the Google Play store or AdAway which also has this feature or TrackerControl or...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

That's not how it works. Apps cannot access the traffic of other apps, let alone decrypt it. There is no way DDG Browser does what you claim it does. They do not even claim that themselves.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

It does in fact do what they claim it does, by functioning as a VPN.

You should probably try the app first before talking out of your ass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They're making shit up. I can assure you that the DDG app does in fact block trackers in other apps, by functioning as a VPN. Give it a try, it really does work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

well damn now i dont know who to believe <:p

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

deadass? I just use adguard

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

I use both adguard and the DDG app. You should be using both too.

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