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• FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In firefox you can easily toggle off the studies telemetry bullshit in the settings.

  They’re abusing the default and making privacy settings require user intervention rather than defaulting to the most private settings and allowing the option of opting in.

  It’s abusing consent, so people move to browsers where privacy is the default option.

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  • FalseTautology@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Blocking abp was the last straw for me, thank you for suggesting librewolf

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• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is what makes Librewolf better.Image

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• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes. I consider it better because it’s preconfigured for privacy, includes UBlock Origin by default, and rips Mozilla’s telemetry out. So you never have to worry about them sneaking something new in a later update.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m more worried about the updates not happening in a timely fashion. Is it just a passion project by a handful of devs, or is there some kind of funding?

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    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Update frequency/latency hasn’t been an issue in the 2 years I’ve been using it.

      librewolf.net/#what-is-librewolf

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sure, but what about in 2 years from now?

        I used IronFox for a couple years and it suddenly stopped getting updates, and it took me a few months to realize and switch to something else. I don’t want that to happen again.

        I like the idea of librewolf, especially that it’s just a patch set on top of Firefox, but someone needs to maintain that patch set. This would be fine for simpler software, but browsers are complex and I just worry that updates will stall out with little warning.

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    • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not a contributor to LibreWolf so I can’t speak with authority on it but I can’t imagine that they are so different from Firefox that they wouldn’t be able to just merge 99% of updates from FF with minimal effort.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        From looking at the repo, it looks like it’s simply a set of patches that get applied to the Firefox source code. They don’t maintain a fork, just a set of changes just prior to building.

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• TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Librewolf doesn’t just block Mozilla telemetry, it also has an easy to understand default for cookies and privacy settings so someone who isn’t a computer expert can rely on the librewolf’s defaults to keep trackers from being able to build a profile on you.

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• ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s benefits to us not tweaking privacy settings. TOR explicitly discourages it. You don’t (always) get fingerprinted by a single unique item, it’s through an ensemble of data points that companies can identify who you are. There may be 10% of users with your same font library, and 1% who has the same monitor width, and 5% with the same time zone, and voila, when you multiply those percentages, you get close to one in a couple billion, and they’ve successfully fingerprinted you.

  If everyone tweaks their settings from default Firefox, you reveal more information about yourself each time. You may think you’re protecting yourself, but the reality is the opposite, you’re creating a one of a kind browser config. This is where Librewolf can really reign supreme, if we all just use stock Librewolf, no one will be unique, and everyone will be anonymous.

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• favoredponcho@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I feel like I’m constantly getting new devices or reinstalling my OSes. I restart from scratch a lot. Going through the steps to harden Firefox becomes tedious. Librewolf starts from where I want to be.

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