Hacker News: mozvalentin

New comment by mozvalentin in "Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?"

mozvalentin — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:03:02 +0000

Chrome and Firefox have deployed / are deploying local-network-access which prompts the user when apps try this.

New comment by mozvalentin in "Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device"

mozvalentin — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 11:16:09 +0000

I really appreciate having an open source solution. I hope the production costs can come down over time. I currently have an Airthings Wave and a Plus - which are roughtly in the same price range but additionally measure Radon.

New comment by mozvalentin in "US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit"

mozvalentin — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:36:03 +0000

The next season of Black Mirror is just going to be international news coverage.

New comment by mozvalentin in "Mozilla fixes Firefox zero-day actively exploited in attacks"

mozvalentin — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:27:08 +0000

Android code was recently imported into mozilla-central which is quite considerable in size.

New comment by mozvalentin in "Mercury – Compiler optimized, private Firefox fork"

mozvalentin — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 11:00:05 +0000

The fact that some people don't trust Mozilla enough to enable telemetry but then install a custom build by random developer simply blows my mind.

New comment by mozvalentin in "www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed"

mozvalentin — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 10:16:19 +0000

https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/131916#issuecom...

This is entirely server-side UA sniffing going wrong. You get an empty HTML doc, only a doctype, with a Firefox Android UA. You can reproduce this with curl and it seems that this affects all UA strings with versions >= 65. <=64 work.

www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed

mozvalentin — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 10:04:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/131916

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38924300

Points: 447

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New comment by mozvalentin in "LibreWolf – Custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom"

mozvalentin — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 09:23:44 +0000

There is a distinct difference between telemetry and the captive portal requests Firefox makes. The captive portal checks have nothing to do with telemetry and contain no payload, which is why they are not covered by that setting.

New comment by mozvalentin in "LibreWolf – Custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom"

mozvalentin — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 14:11:31 +0000

You can actually see all of the telemetry data Firefox is sending by going to about:telemetry in your browser. You can also see all of the probes it could be collecting here: https://probes.telemetry.mozilla.org/ Keep in mind that the telemetry that is captured in Firefox goes through a thorough review process, so that it respects user privacy: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Data_Collection