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Re:Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web bro... by deepsun on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @12:51PM (#44172032)
Today there's no way to disable it, I searched through my Firefox Mobile settings. So I'd say it's for very "power" users.

And why enable it by default, why not disable by default?

Also, sibling comments say iOS is already asking for the permission, why not just copy it?

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Re:Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web bro... by n2h4 on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @02:38AM (#44177785)
it does exist in `about:config`, which could be made as a UI setting instead:

`media.peerconnectin.enabled`.

on cromite[1], a hardened chromium fork, there is such a setting, both in the settings page, as well as when you click on the lock icon in the address bar.

[1]: https://cromite.org

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Re:Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web bro... by _Algernon_ on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @04:06AM (#44178322)
IIRC the standard mobile firefox version no longer makes about:config available. You need to be on a beta or nightly build to access it.
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Re:Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web bro... by cyberax on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @05:43AM (#44178910)
It is still enabled, just a bit hidden: chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml
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Re:Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web bro... by Oxodao on Friday June 06, 2025 @03:04AM (#44198457)
Why are they CONSISTENTLY make Firefox worse? I really want to love it, and I use it because its basically the only choice but ffs
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