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Re: Anyone know how this happens

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Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:
>> "Login breach information
>>  Firefox Monitor warns you if your online accounts were involved in 
>>  a known data breach. For more information, see Firefox Password 
>>  Manager - Alerts for breached websites. 
>>  To get the latest login breach information and more, Firefox
>                                              ^^^^^^^^
>>  connects to firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com"
> [...]
>> But the "Show alerts about passwords for breached web sites" checkbox
>> was already unselected.  Yet the connection was still made at
>> start-up!
> 
> Presumably it's the 'and more' in the description.

In that case they're not being very helpful on a page specifically
about "How to stop Firefox from making automatic connections".

"How do I stop Firefox making this automatic connection?"
"You can disable one of the features which uses the data retrieved
 over that connection like this..."

If that's really what they're saying then they're as bad as
politicians.

Now those hostnames are blocked in my /etc/hosts, along with most
on this list:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/domains-allow-firefox

Another solution is apparantly to edit the URLs in "omni.ja". Since
they've stopped storing all these URLs in the about:config settings
where they were more easily edited in the past:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox/Privacy#Editing_the_contents_of_omni.ja

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.

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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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