Stock firefox (and icecat) comes with Sync not set up. Does firefox ever contact the mothership before a user sets it up? I would guess not, and anyway, it's easy to check.
It is hard to make a case for any general-purpose distro to kill Sync in the manner icecat 12.0 did it. The associated privacy leak is very minimal and requires a nudge from the user, while the utility is enormous. You give up WAY more privacy with a single Google search. For personal use, however, disabling it is a legitimate choice, and it's a shame Mozilla didn't make it an about:config flag. On 07/14/2012 07:14 PM, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: > Il giorno sabato 14/07/2012 18:54:01 CEST > Jason Self <[email protected]> ha scritto: > >> al3xu5 / dotcommon said: >>> saas >> >> It's at most remote file storage, which can't be SaaS unless we consider >> all offsite file storage to be SaaS. > > Right. Indeed, I consider all third-part managed offsite file storage to be a > severe privacy issue, call it SaaS or not. > >> It's even possible to run your own sync server instead. > > Yes. But this case is different: remote services on servers *directly* > managed by myself (or people I personally know and trust) are nice. > > > Anyway, I do not like nor need Synch... so I prefer to disable it when > compiling Icecat. > > Regards > > > > -- > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org >
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