cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26233189
“Android System SafetyCore’ claims to be a ‘security’ application, but whilst running in the background, it collects call logs, contacts, location, your microphone, and much more making this application ‘spyware’ and a HUGE privacy concern. It is strongly advised to uninstall this program if you can. To do this, navigate to 'Settings’ > 'Apps’, then delete the application.”
If you don’t want to navigate android settings you can also simply uninstall it from the Play Store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.safetycore
Additionaly you can install this placeholder app to prevent Google from reinstalling it every time it updates: https://github.com/daboynb/SafetyCore-placeholder
Do you understand what an analogy is?
Anyways, Firefox is the project. All of those other “projects” are mostly configuration changes of the upstream project- not even code changes.
When Firefox decides to become hostile to those “other” browsers you use- they’ll be able to do fuck all about it.
Yes, hence it being a shit one.
No, for example fennec for fdroid which is the base for mull or ironfox has multiple code deletes to remove unsolicited data sent to Google.
That’s not how open Source works…
These projects focusing on configuration changes and feature removal demonstrates their lack of creative potential.
Who cares if they fork? They don’t have the ability to do anything but sit on dead code at that point.