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How to block Mozilla telemetry/spying using pihole? (lemmy.myserv.one)

submitted 1 day ago by Flare9@lemmy.myserv.one to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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What are the domains, and how do you find them? Can I use a wildcard like *.mozilla.net and still firefox/thunderbird works?

Thanks!

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[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fire up the browser and watch the DNS logs, you'll need to still allow update checks most likely.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unless the updates are done from your distro's repos

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Windows users are still living in the wild west where every application can just download and install files arbitrarily.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 points 10 hours ago

Yeah. Can't imagine I used to see not having a unified method to update everything as normal...