Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting

TDCN@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Godort@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Librewolf is exactly the same browser with all the security features dialed to 11 and all the AI removed.

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And it breaks sooo many sites.
    Waterfox, is Firefox that just works.

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    • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I tried Librewolf for a while and found it to be a bit too much for me when all I really want is Firefox without AI. The privacy options are probably great but not for me.

      Just installed waterfox. First impression is that I am super happy to be bock to the previous Firefox theme - it takes less space and looks nicer in my opinion. Seems promising. Thanks for the recommendation! :)

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      • tyler@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The latest Firefox release added a button that does exactly what you want. Turns off AI everywhere.

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    • XLE@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It might be easier to soften Librewolf than harden Firefox, but fair point.

      If you’re a relatively normal user and you still want to use LibreWolf, I would recommend:

      • disable fingerprinting
      • not clearing history on exit

      Most of this is easy to find, especially thanks to the LibreWolf menu

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      • eli@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah it’s all just in the GUI to enable and disable what you don’t want.

        I don’t get what people are complaining about with LibreWolf being “too hard”. Like it’s 1 minute clicking through menus and you’re done. 5 minutes if you need to read and search things up real quick.

        But LibreWolf, ublock installed by default, and then set up containers. Just pure bliss.

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      • fizzle@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I just enable canvas on sites that need it.

        Thats the only part of RFP that I find problematic.

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    • chickenf622@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah Librewolf does go really fucking hard on security/privacy to the detriment of functionality, but the are upfront with that so you shouldn’t be going in completely blind. I think Water Fox is a nice happy medium for users that don’t want to fuck around with technical stuff.

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    • Nindelofocho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It only breaks sites because RFP is on by default and some greedy sites dont like RFP. You can just turn it off and use a good user agent mask (if you care about fingerprinting)

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      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        xkcd.com/2501/

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    • KiwiTB@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wait, it does? I’ve not had site issues with either.

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      • Nelots@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It can cause issues with default settings on the occasional site.

        Since I had it on hand, here’s a screenshot of what I encountered when playing Jackbox with friends. All images would look like this.

        MlYJ6D0Bnz8fAUv.png

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    • eleijeep@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And it breaks sooo many sites.

      No it doesn’t. I use Librewolf and this common refrain is FUD.

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      • Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I used it for almost a year.
        It took me ~3 months to find and tweak settings until I stopped running into issues with sites at least once every couple weeks.

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    • VoiHyvaLuojaMitaNyt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve been using Librewolf for about a month now, today I ran into the first problem, a website was blank but that fixed itself when I closed the tab and opened it again. I’ve been very happy with it so far. Sad to hear you ran into troubles.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    unfortunately forks depend on FF, and chrome to survive.

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• ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Its too late, bro. You gotta break it off and start mingling with the forks.

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• redlemace@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  waterfox

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• aceshigh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I remember having ff and then switching to chrome because it was better, and then switching back to ff because it was better. This car ride is making me sick.

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