My home page is blank. My search engine is duckduck go.

I only have adblock and noscript.

I want firefox to not access google - ever. Right now it shows that it connects and maintains a connection permanently.

I find it infuritating actually.

  • hoppolito@mander.xyzEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    How did you figure out you are establishing a connection to google? Wireshark or similar?

    Does it happen specifically as you open Firefox, or what do you mean with keeping ‘a connection permanently’? Which endpoint is it trying to reach?

    I feel these are important details before people can help you out.

    • blaggle42@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      41·
      2 days ago

      Firefox is trying to connect to 34.160.144.191 at startup. It continues the connection, perhaps to reuse it, or whatever.

      Firefox should never talk to google. And if there is some database that google has that firefox needs, Firefox should duplicate that DB. The fact that I have this thing talking to google anytime I do anything is gross. Anyhow. Blah blah blah. I’m annoying! ;-)

      I have a feeling it’s the safebrowsing. Will find out later. And then will disable.