Swear nobody ever understands when I do this and they look at me with even more confusion than people usually look at me. Which is a fair bit of confusion, to be clear.
The line I always liked but is unusable in reality for sexual harassment reasons is the Seinfeld reference of telling someone who sneezed, "You are soooo good-looking".
and i don’t just mean “because it’s google and google is an ad company”. what specifically is it sending to some internet server that firefox doesn’t? both the firefox and address bars send what you type into them to a search provider. as near as i can tell, firefox’s committment to privacy is to say “we protect your privacy” while doing all the same stuff that chrome does.
Firefox blocks a bunch of tracking by default. Chrome requires the user to take action to prevent that tracking. I also recall Chrome leaking hardware UUIDs some years back when Chromium did not meaning Google added code to cause that. I think that has been fixed for awhile since I don’t immediately find info about it.
I don’t think it’s that connection causing problems, mainly because my app works fine (mostly) and I don’t have a connection to any meta services. There are none on my phone, and I do not have a Facebook login at all. I will say that of all the apps I use, Ally is the most finicky. It seems to crash itself every 2-3 uses for no apparent reason at all.
That said, it seems unlikely that the app would fail for you in this case just because you blocked access to a service that I know it does not actually require to operate (because it has to be operating without it on my phone), and another poster tested and could not recreate. Not sure if that helps, but may point you towards diagnosing what is really causing the issue!
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