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

wall_panel_96@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Ibaudia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Librewolf is privacy-hardened so it’s probably the best option. Brave is Chromium-based. Realistically though, all web browsers come with compromises, and internet anonymity is virtually impossible without unrealistic amounts of effort.

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• vinay_clubsall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Someone earlier said that brave was based on chrome and when google blocked ublock origin on Chrome, it would stop working on brave too.

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  • cultsuperstar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    People don’t like Brave because they believe it’s a crypto scam, and the CEO is a douchebag. But Brave has said they’ll continue to support extensions regardless of Google’s change.

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    • gamer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Don’t forget the CEO’s worst crime: he’s the inventor of javascript

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      • cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Also the fact that he’s a rabid homophobe and transphobe.

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      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Clearly not someone you can trust.

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  • wall_panel_96@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I have yet to see YouTube ads on brave, but are you saying that will soon cease to be the case? Bugger.

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    • Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Also, Brave has really shitty features like redirecting referral codes.

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• ded@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ve been annoying people with this information: Librewolf is mostly a autoconfig file for Firefox (which is a Firefox feature). codeberg.org/librewolf/settings/…/librewolf.cfg

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  • gamer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t get your point, are you saying that using LibreWolf will still send your personal data to Mozilla? A privacy hardened config should be enough to disable all data collection, unless there’s some kind of hidden telemetry in Firefox. That’d be hard to hide considering the open source nature of Firefox.

    Also, looking at the source repo, it seems like LibreWolf is not just a config file, it’s also a bunch of patches to the source code, plus they do build from source and publish their own binaries. So if Mozilla does try to sneak telemetry in, the LibreWolf maintainers are well positioned to patch it out.

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    • ded@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m in a doomer mindset. We will wait and see. I was around at the start of librewolf, came from what is now arkenfox. I had to discover numerous (new) prefs these projects didn’t cover, which were later added to them. They are great efforts, don’t get me wrong. Even if the problem were just prefs, catching up to firefox development takes people’s free time. Librewolf doesn’t even handle (much) code.

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