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As the browser runs locally on our machine, surely its possible to just block firefox phoning home by DNS black holes or even hosts file or something?



That's exactly what Firefox originally claimed was a stark difference compared to Chrome: "use us and you can finally be safe and not need to play cat and mouse anymore"


If you’re planning this, just use a fork of Firefox that does those things. Less setup and you don’t need to update that file whenever they change the domains used for telemetry.




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