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Re:Why does Debian change software? by exiguus on Thursday May 22, 2025 @07:30AM (#44060986)
Most good stuffed Distros do this. For example SUSE recently banned a package because of "calling home" e.g. did side-leading. https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/07/deepin-desktop-remo...

Debian indeed does this. In release FF has disabled telemetry: https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox

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Re:Why does Debian change software? by winternewt on Thursday May 22, 2025 @09:04AM (#44061654)
I wouldn't think the Firefox license allows them to do that. I thought only binaries built by Mozilla could use the FF brand.
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Re:Why does Debian change software? by rmccue on Thursday May 22, 2025 @09:07AM (#44061681)
Indeed, Mozilla only recently allowed Debian to use the brand for their modified version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian%E2%80%93Mozilla_tradema...
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Re:Why does Debian change software? by jefftk on Thursday May 22, 2025 @11:13AM (#44062901)
Recently? It was almost a decade ago: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815006
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Re:Why does Debian change software? by akdev1l on Thursday May 22, 2025 @09:20AM (#44061799)
That’s the reason for a while we had IceWeasel
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Re:Why does Debian change software? by gus_ on Thursday May 22, 2025 @10:22AM (#44062355)
Unfortunately that is not entirely true.

For example, when closing firefox on OpenSUSE Leap 15.6, "pingsender" is launched to collect telemetry:

https://imgur.com/a/k3Nnbbj

It has been there for years. It is also on other distros.

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Re:Why does Debian change software? by diggan on Thursday May 22, 2025 @12:30PM (#44063664)
Did someone report/open a issue about it? Maybe it's as simple as them not being aware of it.
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