I have always used Mullvad Leta as my search engine, but after changing smartphone and download Fennec, I ended up leaving DuckDuckgo that comes standard for now. However, after the last Fennec update (140.0.0), I was surprised to have Google as a standard search engine. What do you think of this? Someone with this same experience?
try out ironfox
I have been using Ironfox to replace Mull for a while, but for some specific cases I also use Fennec, but I alert, as well as Fennec, Ironfox is not coming with the Fingerprint Resistance enabled by default, although it has proposed as an alternative to Mull. So stay tuned and always activate this in the developer settings.
yeah i was a little grossed out last night when i saw that. so fuck em. iron fox?
Glad to see this. A bit ago I saw I was searching with Google and was surprised
Just change it.
Defaults are extremely important, we can’t babysit every app update in the devices of a tech illiterate person we help or simply suggested Firefox to
True but wouldn’t also literacy be about knowing what defaults are and how to change them?
Helping others is nice but if it’s babysitting rather than raising them up, then they can’t in turn help others.
Exactly!
I have always used Mullvad Leta as my search engine,
always? Isn’t mullvad leta online for ± 2 years?
Seriously, man?! So much relevant question to be addressed and you will pay attention to it? hahahaha. But let’s go! I do not speak English, so I use translator. If the translator has chosen “Always” and is not suitable, it is not my fault. I mentioned that “Always Used” to use Mullvad Leta since the beginning of its recent operating period and everyone knows. Explained? So let’s go to what matters, privacy!
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I know Google is bad and all, but in the case of Fennec, is it really that big of a deal? I say that because someone who knows how to get Fennec on their phones will also be aware on what search engine they use, so it’s not like the maintainer is advertising Google or anything IMO
🔄 Repost of the comment of our community partner @pipes@sh.itjust.works on this post ⬇️
“Defaults are extremely important, we can’t babysit every app update in the devices of a tech illiterate person we help or simply suggested Firefox to”
Note: Standards are also important to show whether developers and organizations are actually privacy in their products and services. It is not a matter of having knowledge to modify your taste. But as it seems that it was simply a problem in updating Fennec, everything is ok. They must correct soon.
It’s a fair take, but even still, someone who goes out of their way to get to fdroid and install Fennec should very well be aware of alternatives to Google.
An argument that discards knowledge as a factor only makes sense to me in a context of a tech illiterate installing Firefox directly from the Play Store.
Also, from my own knowledge (correct me if I’m wrong) the point of Fennec is to be as FOSS as possible, and not to have all the provacy-oriented defaults, if that were the case, I presume it would come with uBlock preinstalled, for example.
It’s also worth mentioning that Fennec never changes what defaults you set with updates (at least in my personal experience, would like to hear if anyone had a different story) EDIT my own default settings was changed to Google later that day. So can’t argue on that 😂
