Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic

FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I installed Librewolf despite being a furry that loves foxes and it legit fixed every Firefox issue I had. But they were all local issues.

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  • FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nice, what issues?

    TBH I was tempted to try IceCat first because of the name (I’m not a furry but I do think cats are cool). But no official binaries and I’m already running enough custom-compiled software, thing I need least is for my browser to be like that too haha

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ahhh that makes sense hahaha.

      The issues I was running into I’m SURE stemmed from having a bloated profile, so I could have fixed them by clearing my profile out, or reinstalling (probably.) video on my partner’s computer (our main entertainment machine) would only play in Private Mode for some reason. Hanime wouldn’t play anything at all, the site was bugged out. Many pages displayed super weird on their machine, too. My computer had some video playing issues but I didn’t run into pages displaying strangely.

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• unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  just uninstall firefox

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  • IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yep, I have Chrome and its a better browser anyways /s

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    • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      chrome is a better browser because it’s compliant

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      • laz@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Its compliant because they write fekin standards. It’s almost like monopolies are bad ^^

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Switched to librewolf the other day, and it’s great

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  • FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Been using it all day now and yeah, it’s very smooth sailing. The tweaks I made basically involved removing fingerprinting protection, which I saw people online deride as “defeating the entire purpose of Librewolf”. Well, not true anymore.

    I just want manifest v3 and to not have to consent to ToS agreements implicitly allowing some suspicious organisation to harvest and sell literally any keypress I enter into the browser, which has become the de facto cross platform way to do almost everything.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How do the fingerprinting protection things defeat the purpose of librewolf? Seems like an unambiguously good thing for privacy… Or does it conflict with another feature?

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      • FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh, sorry for the confusion. The posts online I’ve found about the subject of disabling fingerprinting protection in Librewolf are full of people who state that doing so “defeats the purpose of Librewolf”. Which probably WAS true before Mozilla’s recent changes, since the sole reason Librewolf had to exist was to be a hardened version of Firefox.

        That’s no longer the case since Librewolf has a new purpose (now that Mozilla thinks they own the right to sell all your data): a Firefox fork without Mozilla.

        I disabled a lot of that stuff because it’s kind of annoying for usability, e.g. browser won’t render anything at more than 60fps. I know this is a trade off and I’m cool with that. I have other tools and strategies in place to protect my privacy.

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    • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Funny thing reddit uses some form fingerprint iding to ban people.

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