We notice. They’re not hiding. The (numerous) endpoints are all presents in the about:config page. The actual content, though, is not that obvious to get. If we assume the binaries are compromised (I don’t believe they are for now, for the record), an outsider would only see a TLS session. At best we could get the vague amount of data exfiltrated, not really the content. But that’s hypothetical. For now.
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null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks agoYou’re right that being opensource doesn’t mean the binaries don’t include extra stuff.
However, are you seriously suggesting no one would notice Firefox transmitting telemetry? Seems unlikely.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
As someone else said, reproducible builds is a great mitigating factor for this secret changes. Firefox does have telemetry, but is very transparent and lets you turn it all off (as far as I can tell anyway). Don’t want ads? Easy. Don’t want Mozilla services? Simple.