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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] 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