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Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:
>> By the way, if Mozilla agree they need a page describing the long
>> and complicated process (that doesn't work) of stopping Firefox
>> from phoning home in countless different ways, why don't they just
>> have a single setting in the browser to universally disable all
>> such automatic connections? Overall it doesn't seem like they're
>> acting in good faith with this.
> 
> Mistakes happen, no need to assume bad faith. You can submit a bug
> report...

Every time I've looked at doing that for a Firefox issue I've run
into it turns out someone has already submitted the same bug and
the developers just don't want to fix the problem (marked "INVALID"
or "WONTFIX" or open and ignored for decades). Any other software
from developers like that I wouldn't touch, but with many websites
not just requiring Javascript but now actively blocking Dillo as a
"bot", there's just no good option. So the whole thing really gets
me annoyed.

In this case it was already reported five years ago and they marked
it as WONTFIX after linking to the same article you did:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1617392

Also a similar bug for the background Firefox process ("agent") on
Windows, closed as INVALID:
"I suspect the URL you're seeing hit is on the remote settings
 server (https://firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com) ...
 We don't have a way to disable that request except to disable the
 entire agent"
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1689212#c8

Anyway I wouldn't want to try reporting that bug even if it hadn't
been covered already. Every time I look at these things on
Bugzilla it's abundantly clear that I'm just not a member of their
target userbase. It gets me angry just looking at other people's
bug reports, I couldn't stand interacting politely with that crowd
myself.

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Anyone know how this happens The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-01 19:47 +0000
  Re: Anyone know how this happens Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-01 20:35 +0000
    Re: Anyone know how this happens Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-01 20:54 +0000
  Re: Anyone know how this happens not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-11-02 08:04 +1000
    Re: Anyone know how this happens The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-02 11:21 +0000
  Re: Anyone know how this happens Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-01 22:35 +0000
    Re: Anyone know how this happens not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-11-02 09:14 +1000
      Re: Anyone know how this happens Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-02 10:01 +0000
        Re: Anyone know how this happens not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-11-03 07:15 +1000
          Re: Anyone know how this happens Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-02 23:18 +0000
            Re: Anyone know how this happens Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2025-11-03 17:24 +1000
  Re: Anyone know how this happens Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-11-02 09:24 +0000

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