Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic
ded@lemy.lol 1 week agoI’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
gamer@lemm.ee 1 week 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.
ded@lemy.lol 1 week 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.