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?

  • PrivateLemur@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    So I think that this is a bad decision by Mozilla. Who’s idea was it to make a trackerless fork crash?

    I can’t think of any good reason for them to make it impossible for a forked browser to function properly, if they try to remove all trackers.

    Even if you can be sure that the code is junk and harmless, that’s unfortunate and just doesn’t look good IMO.

    • kopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      6·
      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.