(09-22-2020, 09:13 AM)bcnaz Wrote:(09-22-2020, 08:58 AM)wi_badger Wrote:*************(09-22-2020, 06:09 AM)bcnaz Wrote: ....maybe I am being overly cautious, but reading Mozilla's disclosures and disclaimers they use third parties and share
information with them including Google and others, But they tell you they are not responsible for what the third
parties do with that shared information.
I'm not sure that it's possible to be "overly" cautious about these issues ... but not surprised that they share information.
The key question is how much information is passed in addition to location.
IP address, almost certainly, MAC address maybe. Phone number ? Don't know.
Name ? Lots of us out there named mobian, right ? But how about the name on an email account ? Again, don't know.
You can purchase a sim card for $1 USD and a smart phone card for $25 a month from the Dollar store and activate your phone anonymously if you want, that helps buy some privacy.
True! At least for as long as the dollar stores accept cash and dont have face id cameras. Im guessing these days are numbered too... Still privacy is attainable, but it will continue to require innovative thought. Anyway, i think getting a secure browser similar to epic or brave should be a priority for pinephone devs. Past that maybe "Tails for pinephone"??? And carry 2 simcards, one live drive with mac spoofing, and another with your important info. Live drive when you're out and about, regular when you're at home. I don't think we need to worry about big brother discerning our address, they already know that. But our personal habits, discussions, and other aspects of life in society i think we ought to protect. That social credit concept is coming and its freaky... Doing some research? Pop in that live drive...
If you're somewhere where stop and frisk is a thing, epic or brave on your device probably wont land you as manu questions as tor or i2p
Quick follow up, not to downplay the significance of mozilla sharing info with google, but something with epic could shed some light on this. Take it with a grain of salt though. At the start of the year epic posted that their own epic search engine was moving from google search backbone to yahoo. The reason that google had let them use their backbone with no strings for a while, but changed to require reporting of personal data for the use of their search results. Epic didnt like this and looked for alternatives. Yahoo also required something similar, but much less info than google, so epic partnered with Yahoo instead. They posted a warning about this early in the year. It does not affect the browser, only their search engine. I'd hazard a guess that mozilla is similar. They have google built in as a search engine, but also duckduckgo. Perhaps they only report when stuff is searched on google due to the same thing google pulled with epic. And, perhaps this doesn't apply when you use duckduckgo or an alternative search engine?
Pure speculation....
