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Firefox for Android adding Google Integrity checks (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] 4 points 5 months ago (8 children)

The token is used to access Firefox’s server-side AI tools, like Smart Window, for rate-limiting purposes, ensuring only unmodified, Play-installed copies of Firefox on Google-certified devices use Mozilla’s1 compute infra.

That's... alright, that seems not unreasonable. Am I misunderstanding this?

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

    I'm someone who did not install mine via the play store, which sounds like means I don't have access.

    Luckily I don't need it, but they just bifurcated their user base

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    I use the Fennec fork, from F-Droid.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    TIL, I'll check it out

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    There is also ironfox https://github.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox if you scan the qr code it will add the repository to your f-droid app.

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