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I have all Firefox Data Collection and Use options disabled.

Anyone know what all of these services are doing? I assume they're for auto updates, account sync, and maybe pushing Pocket ads and/or sponsored pins?

Likely, I'll block most, but curious if anyone knew.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I just googled a few URLs here, and found the following:

mozgcp.net is the Mozilla Google Cloud Platform, looking at the links it connects to, it looks as if it is accessing settings for Google, then finding some certificates, accessing pictures for the Pocket service and doing some product detection, why, I have no idea.

moz.works is Mozilla's content delivery network, porbably nothing to worry about.

mozaws.net is probably a service running on AWS, the autopush service seems to deal with the Push API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API

mozilla.com looks quite benign at first glance, but googling firefox contile tells you that that service is used to push ads on the new tabs page: https://mozilla-services.github.io/contile/

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Detectportal is for captive portal detection, so that firefox knows if you need to log in on a captive portal before using the public wifi network you are connected to.

If that's a stationary computer, that's probably not needed, it can be disabled in about:config so it's easier on the firewall

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Awesome, much appreciated

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

mozgcp.net is the Mozilla Google Cloud Platform, looking at the links it connects to, it looks as if it is accessing settings for Google, then finding some certificates, accessing pictures for the Pocket service and doing some product detection, why, I have no idea.

Also Google Safe Browsing?