A Quarter Century of Mozilla

Re:A Quarter Century of Mozilla by hulitu on Friday March 31, 2023 @02:28PM (#35391223)

> Firefox has evolved from a faithful and efficient render of web pages on PCs to a cross-platform agent that acts on behalf of the individual, protecting them from bad actors and surveillance capitalists

Then why does it connect at start at e100.net ?

Why does it use google for "malware protection" ?

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Re:A Quarter Century of Mozilla by the_third_wave on Friday March 31, 2023 @02:38PM (#35391380)

> Then why does it connect at start at e100.net ?

Because you have not blocked it at the router. Defence in depth saves you from having to trust any single party. Use "trustworthy" software, add blocking at the host level, at the DNS forwarder/resolver level and at the routing level and you're more likely to catch those ugly bottom feeders which tend to slip from the nets.

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