thanks. I used Netguard before and its great as long as you dont need to use a real VPN... because it acts as a VPN itself to get the job done, not sure about Glasswire
TONS of open source software embeds phone-home spyware these days. Most developers see nothing wrong with this sort of covert data exfiltration, thinking opt-out preferences are fine.
It's not fine.
I install Little Snitch from USB before ever allowing a freshly wiped Mac to connect to any network.
> This direct connection happen even if I told Firefox to always use a proxy, and the proxy setting is ignored for this traffic.
Another lovely "awesome, gold star, big thumbs up /s" for Firefox. I'm sure that's not problematic at all for people trying to avoid surveillance. (Granted, I just use Wireguard and 'netns' when using a proxy)
> awesome, gold star, big thumbs up /s" for Firefox
Two days ago I launched Firefox on Android only to find my homepage page-selector had Amazon and Adidas sites where previously my most visited sites were, with "sponsored" text beneath. So now I am on Brave....
If they would instead popup a "we need money, please send us a dollar", they would surely get more than few parts of a cent per infuriated user.
> I suspect some application developers should rethink when then need to use network connections or DNS lookups
And I suspect the commercial ones were just ordered by someone above them (e.g. Firefox; they'll die if they don't bow out to Google's surreptitious data gathering needs) and most OSS ones are over-eager to get telemetry or... I don't know what else?
I applaud articles like these. They point out the problems. Hopefully more scrutiny leads to more restraint.
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Or https://search.f-droid.org/?q=firewall
It's not fine.
I install Little Snitch from USB before ever allowing a freshly wiped Mac to connect to any network.
Another lovely "awesome, gold star, big thumbs up /s" for Firefox. I'm sure that's not problematic at all for people trying to avoid surveillance. (Granted, I just use Wireguard and 'netns' when using a proxy)
Two days ago I launched Firefox on Android only to find my homepage page-selector had Amazon and Adidas sites where previously my most visited sites were, with "sponsored" text beneath. So now I am on Brave....
If they would instead popup a "we need money, please send us a dollar", they would surely get more than few parts of a cent per infuriated user.
And I suspect the commercial ones were just ordered by someone above them (e.g. Firefox; they'll die if they don't bow out to Google's surreptitious data gathering needs) and most OSS ones are over-eager to get telemetry or... I don't know what else?
I applaud articles like these. They point out the problems. Hopefully more scrutiny leads to more restraint.
https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues