[BUG] Connection to `incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org`

Hello,

first of all, congratulations for this fork, something along the lines of Librewolf is properly needed for Android.

In light of the recent events from Mozilla, I'd like to point out one thing I found. Upon a fresh install, IronFox immediately wants to connect to mozilla telemetry, which Trackercontrol nicely blocks.

Here's a screenshot about it:

I guess you want to take care of this?

Thanks for the report. I'm unable to replicate this on a fresh install of IronFox (tested with both NextDNS & TrackerControl - no connections to incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org have been reported).

Can you please provide more details? Ex:

• What version of Android is this?
• What version of IronFox are you using?
• How long has this been occuring?
• Are you using ex. Firefox Sync?
• Have you changed any settings - and if so, what?
• Have you installed any extensions?
• Does this behavior persist on fresh installations of IronFox?

Hey,

thanks for responding. I'm super busy right now but will touch base on this later on.

It was a fresh install, I visited no pages, nothing. I need to work a bit more on it to see if I can reproduce it somehow.

@karolyi No worries, please do when you get a chance. You can also try the latest release (136.0.1).

Hi, Thanks to all those contributing to this important project. I installed 136.0.2 late last night but did not use it. This was my first IronFox install. I used to use Mull as my main Android browser before the divestos projects were sadly closed and put fennec 136.0.0 from f-droid on. I already had Tor Browser 14.0.7 installed. I provide this info as they are Mozilla based in case their presence has any influence on this. Today Tracker Control says Mozilla Telemetry and Sentry have been detected. I'm using crDroid 11.2 without gapps. Please do let me know if there is anything I can test or try to assist in this although currently I only have time for small tasks. I would hope to use IronFox as the main browser on this device. I have not as yet agreed the terms of use and hence not used the browser yet. Why is this using Mozilla Firefox privacy notice when "This is not an officially supported Mozilla product. IronFox is in no way affiliated with Mozilla" and, if Mozilla Telemetry is disabled would not connect to Mozilla? Isn't a privacy policy similar to Librewolf adequate given what I understand is the goal of this project? Thanks. Apologies if I should have posted part of that separately.

Today Tracker Control says Mozilla Telemetry and Sentry have been detected.

This is expected; we stub those libraries, so apps like TrackerControl incorrectly claim they’re still present. Should be similar for ex. Tor Browser & others.

@karolyi’s issue is different; their Tracker Control reported a connection to incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org - which is unexpected and would be an issue. Unless you’re seeing the same connection blocked on your end, there isn’t anything to worry about.

I have not as yet agreed the terms of use and hence not used the browser yet. Why is this using Mozilla Firefox privacy notice when "This is not an officially supported Mozilla product. IronFox is in no way affiliated with Mozilla" and, if Mozilla Telemetry is disabled would not connect to Mozilla? Isn't a privacy policy similar to Librewolf adequate given what I understand is the goal of this project?

IronFox isn’t impacted by Mozilla’s Terms of Use and most of Mozilla’s privacy policy. I specify most for the privacy policy here, as we do still rely on Mozilla services for important functionality (Ex. updates to the built-in tracking protection lists, certificate revocation lists, blocklists for malicious add-ons, etc), so their privacy policy would apply for those services. This is the same for LibreWolf, which also uses these services. This is also why you’ll still see some connections to Mozilla, for this functionality.

Apologies if I should have posted part of that separately.

No worries - but in the future, please do file a separate issue.

Thanks for your prompt, informative response and understanding.

I confirm - it contains 2 trackers. I've just downloaded IronFox-v136.0.2-arm64-v8a.apk and before I install it, I've tested it and it contain 2 trackers - Mozilla Telemetry and Sentry.

In addition, IronFox is not found on f-droid site: https://search.f-droid.org/?q=ironfox&lang=en

@kopred See my response directly above...

added bug label

changed title from Mozilla telemetry found to {+[BUG] Connection to incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org+}

Filed an issue for TrackerControl to stop falsely claiming we (as well as other browsers like Fennec F-Droid & Tor Browser) contain tracking libraries... https://github.com/TrackerControl/tracker-control-android/issues/452

That being said: the incorrect tracking library labels from TrackerControl have never been the issue here, and some people seem to be misunderstanding that. That's a bug on their end and something they need to fix.

The actual IronFox bug here is that @karolyi's Tracker Control reported a connection to incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org. If anyone else is seeing this connection reported, please let us know; that's what we're investigating/need to fix, assuming this is still an issue.