What is up with the amount of trackers in Ironfox? Way more than any other apps.

Surely this is not in keeping with their whole privacy vibe?

  • Jul (they/she)@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    Is this without having ever visited any websites in that time period and with no plugins installed? Otherwise, it’s likely much of that is the websites rather than the app. For example, YouTube doesn’t make much sense for a browser itself to contact.

    • ropatrick@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorOP
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      19 hours ago

      OK I get you. So what I see there will change over time depending on my browsing activity. Tracker Control is just picking them up because they originate in the browser? That makes sense.

      To answer your question, no it’s not a fresh view.

      I’m glad theres a logical answer!

  • Treasure@feddit.org
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    19 hours ago

    To me it just seems like the websites you opened in Ironfox were calling the trackers. The only things I’d see Ironfox using is Firebase Crashlytics and maybe Mozilla sites for add-on updates etc.

    • ropatrick@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorOP
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      19 hours ago

      Tell me about it. I’m demented trying to stay ahead of things. Funny enough I never feel like the cat in this game!

      • Voxel@feddit.org
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        17 hours ago

        As far as I remember, TrackerControl actually says that if it recognizes the app as a browser, the listed network connections are most likely from websites you visit.

  • solrize@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    Tracker blocking is an endless cat and mouse game, so where is the surprise? Also, if that’s a firewall log, does normal browsing count as contacting companies?

        • _Nemo_@lemmy.ml
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          12 hours ago

          It does say that, and yet I’ve been doing it for years without issue. You just need to know what you’re doing, i.e. you need to be able to tell apart the connections that are required to make a site work from those that aren’t needed and can be blocked without issue. If you don’t, Tracker Control will break a lot of sites, and they probably don’t want to deal with the resulting support requests.

          But if you’ve been using NoScript for a while, you will feel right at home with TC and be able to use it with browsers as well, which is where a lot of tracking happens.

      • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        19 hours ago

        What doesn’t add up? I don’t understand what you are objecting to here.

        Web sites have trackers. You showed a screenshot of a browser plugin (? apparently) blocking a bunch of them for you.

        What specifically do you think doesn’t add up?

        • ropatrick@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorOP
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          19 hours ago

          It has been explained in a couple of other responses, but, I was concerned that there were so many trackers associated with Ironfox in the Tracker Control app, however it seems that Tracker Control handles browsers differently and the entries are generated from browsing activity as opposed to being baked into the app itself.

          • BottleBoardBakon@lemmy.ml
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            18 hours ago

            You should also know that cookies and browsing history are not wiped between sessions unless you explicitly click the “quit IronFox” button.