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TotalSonic

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audio mastering engineer at Total Sonic Media - https://totalsonic.net

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It’s not completely over if folks help with porting more Fossil models over to Asteroid OS - https://asteroidos.org

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This is the result of the default install of Fennec - it needs the user to install an extension to get ad and tracker blocking like you have

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Here you can see that Fennec tried to “phone home” to Mozilla when I launched it

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So that’s the second test a browser needs to pass for me - no embedded tracker libraries. Fennec fails on that.

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Embedded trackers Brave: 0 Fennec: 3

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Not quite for me - Fennec (at least the build from F-droid) does not randomize fingerprint, AppManager and TrackerControl both show it has embedded trackers sending telemetry to Mozilla, and Fennec is not available on desktop. Librewolf is hardened Firefox on desktop, and is very good though, and has the trackers going back to Mozilla removed, but it does not randomize fingerprint.

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I am guessing you are using uBlock Origin or similar with Fenec, as I just get “partial protection” in the EFF test unless that extension is installed.

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I am using SparkOS on this device. My usual daily driver running Android 14 uses degoogled BlissROM and gets the same results, but I just borked it testing the latest alpha version for the maintainer.

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The EFF is very good at what they do, and I’ve found it to be reliable, based on auditing traffic with tools like TrackerControl and AppManager as well. There is also resources noting test results such as https://privacytests.org

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This is what I get on a degoogled Android 13 custom ROM. What OS/device are you using? Did you opt out of sending stats to Brave when you installed?

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