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I have all Firefox Data Collection and Use options disabled.

Anyone know what all of these services are doing? I assume they're for auto updates, account sync, and maybe pushing Pocket ads and/or sponsored pins?

Likely, I'll block most, but curious if anyone knew.

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[–] inspxtr@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

How do you view these and how would you block them by the way? Via uBlock?

[–] glowie@infosec.pub 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

For my work machine I've got to use macOS. These connections were seen with the Little Snitch app. Highly recommend it.

[–] inspxtr@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

gotcha! I’ve just started to use opensnitch (for linux) but I don’t usually inspect the detailed connections that often. thanks for the tip on firefox, I’ll be on the lookout for those.

[–] glowie@infosec.pub 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nice, would also recommend Safing Portmaster for Linux, if you've not tried it yet. A great FOSS tool for managing network connections.

[–] inspxtr@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

thanks for the suggestion! will check it out!