Gregory's Serverjust checked Firefox (iOS) settings and saw that this "studies" bullshit tracking they are doing was turned back on. I definitely had this turned off ages ago and they automatically turned it back on via an update
Liaizon Wakest
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Liaizon Wakest
"So even though a telemetry-disabling user explicitly tells Mozilla that they don’t want to “Allow Firefox to install and run studies,” Mozilla goes ahead and runs a study on telemetry coverage using their system add-on." 
التنينوكس
@liaizon You need to look into something like #fennec I don't know if there is an iOS version.
Brian!
@liaizon yeah, this is the dark side of the "Chrome is bring evil, just use Firefox" situation - Mozilla had a weird takeover in 2020ish where they had a "pivot to profitability" and now they're bloated as shit and do stuff like this. it's not quite Google level I'd say but it's pretty shitty FWIW, forks like Fennec and LibreWolf disable this outright, and on iOS every browser internally has to use Safari's internal rendering engine(? unless that's changed) so I'm not sure it matters there
Liaizon Wakest
Jason Cosper
@liaizon Send usage data *and* Studies got flipped back on in Firefox Focus (iOS) for me as well. 😠 |
"Mozilla is abusing Firefox Studies to distribute adware (again)"
https://cohost.org/DangerousDoctor/post/1785252-mozilla-is-abusing-f