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Trackers in forks of Firefox for Android (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've always wondered, why does Android forks of Firefox are not (or cannot?) get rid of ALL the trackers? Even Tor browser!

The browser with the least trackers is Mull, but it still has 1 Mozilla telemetry tracker, which the devs claim is completely disabled. I can't really read and inspect code, so I don't actually know.

So why is it? Does Mozilla make the browser unusable if you try to remove the tracker from the code?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Mozilla isn't doing anything malicious (or even intentional) here IMO. Firefox as a codebase is gigantic, and most forks are tiny and under-resourced in comparison, so they have to resort to tricks like this if they want to be able to keep up with updates in a timely manner.