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LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM. If you have any question please visit our FAQ first: https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/

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YSK that LibreWolf creates persistent connections to Mozilla (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 week ago by observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca to c/librewolf@lemmy.ml

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Despite disabling most of Mozilla's telemetry and other phone-home functionality (such as captive portal), I found that a fresh LibreWolf profile makes quite a few connections on first startup (see list below), and some repeating every startup. One in particular is persistent: that is to push.services.mozilla.com and can be disabled by setting the dom.push.enabled configuration to false (I personally don't need push notifications in the browser; you can also set a custom URL).

What is particularly annoying is that some of these domains, related to "remote settings", are essentially hard-coded and cannot be disabled by changing configuration parameters. I now block these three in my /etc/hosts file.

firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com
firefox-settings-attachments.cdn.mozilla.net
content-signature-2.cdn.mozilla.net

Helpfully Mozilla lists domain to allow so you can find more domains to potentially block.

Here is the list of domains LibreWolf connected to at startup of a fresh profile. Some are understandable, some less so.

addons.mozilla.org
firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com
firefox-settings-attachments.cdn.mozilla.net
content-signature-2.cdn.mozilla.net
services.addons.mozilla.org
gitlab.com
push.services.mozilla.com
ublockorigin.github.io
malware-filter.gitlab.io
raw.githubusercontent.com
pgl.yoyo.org
curbengh.github.io
malware-filter.pages.dev
cdn.statically.io
versioncheck-bg.addons.mozilla.org
cdn.jsdelivr.net
ublockorigin.pages.dev
publicsuffix.org
codeberg.org

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[–] qweertz@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago

These all seem valid and functional, no?