Hardened Firefox paranoid
Librewolf
Vacuum-gapped video relay in the wilderness.
I am slowly moving to waterfox :3
It isn’t bad
Librewolf is just a usable Firefox
Firefox is a completely usable Firefox.
If you dont care about Ad search engines, Studies, Pocket, Google Safebrowsing, search suggestions, a start page with ads, weak privacy settings, all cookies saved forever, no adblocking, a unique canvas fingerprint, a user agent containing your Linux Distro,…
I went through the arkenfox user.js and literally all of it minus 20 or so settings just make sense. The rest are kinda overkill, but really, Firefox is horrible out of the box.
It is really modular luckily
“horrible” being mostly sensible for the average user, as well as basic telemetry for making development much easier. but muhhh nooo with that information they can know who exactly I am!!! preach!!!
A lot of these are privacy invasive. Senseful telemitry is fine, but I dont see how they do that.
really, Firefox is horrible out of the box.
It is really modular luckily
Taking shit, but even you still have to recognize excellent software design.
Stop harrassing me please. Just because you are fine with something, you cant say anyone else is talking shit.
Firefox is really modular, and that makes it different from the other browers.
I don’t see how a couple of replies could be considered harassment just because I used the phrase “talking shit”. The fact is that you’re fear mongering, and you apparently don’t like it being questioned.
Most of these aren’t issues or are “solved” in a couple of seconds.
I am curious, exactly how would it be remotely possible for me to care that my UA string mentions Ubuntu when that’s not even technically my distro? I cannot summon an ounce of concern there. Seriously, how the hell would that matter in the least to anyone?
It adds one factor for Fingerprinting that is simply not needed
I knew you would say that. I imagine that user agent strings as a concept are bad, in your opinion?
They are useful to differentiate mobile from PC devices. That is not needed as many Websites are dynamic, but useful for some.
As all browsers also support the common web standards, it is also not necessary for determining supported features or something.
The only other use I find is having download links targeting the platform, but especially on Linux that is not really useful
“useful” is relative. I prefer a world where websites can know which platforms users are coming from, as it helps them know where to focus their support efforts.
There are billions of users but probably only a few OSes mentioned in UA strings so it seems like a decent trade off to me. My exact UA string is likely shared by millions of users even though my OS is somewhat rare on the world stage. Until the day comes that web browsers work exactly the same way on every platform, at which case I’d agree with you, no longer useful. Unfortunately for decades we’ve been quite a bit short of that end.
Just checked because I couldn’t remember exactly what OS info mine included last I looked. It’s quite generic:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0
I’m considering switching to LibreWolf after all the AI crap Mozilla is adding
Librewolf is great. I just add exceptions for a handful of sites I want to retain sessions for and it is very usable as a daily driver
Or even better, use a different site
except on twitch, maybe it’s just me but i need to restart my browser pretty consistently when watching vods
Statistical analysis of a large data set is a sin, after all.
No it isn’t. Making it opt-out by default is.
It’s opt-in though?
What other programming techniques should be opt-in by default? OOP? Global variables? Caching?
Singling out a technique just because you disapprove of how certain parties have used it is just as ridiculous as trying to to shoehorn it into every application and use it as a marketing buzzword.
You are deliberately missing the point.
AI bad?
I migrated from firefox to librewolf AND Tor this week. Help.
I saw a post earlier this week where Firefox was adding an AI to the browser? That’d make me migrate to libre wolf or water fox.
yea their weird choices of late made me realize that the focus was shifted to money-making and not privacy. So I jumped the ship
Firefox was so close to taking all the users from Chrome
Librewolf for normal stuff, Tor for stuff I don’t even want linked to my IP.
Jokes on you, cause a lot of alphabet organizations set up entry and exit nodes on Tor so you’re being tracked regardless.
Most of my Tor activity is on onionsites, so that’s okay.
Also, even given spooky nodes, the chances of getting a spooky entry and exit node are slim. Still, given the possibility, it is advisable to do spicy clearnet activities away from home with a MAC randomizer as insurance in case you win the world’s worst roulette game.
I think the big problem I have with tor is that there’s no way to know how compromised the network is. From a three letter agency budget, setting up 30,000 nodes wouldn’t be a big deal, you just have them doing other things.
Of course, I’m not really doing anything that would draw the ire of a three-letter agency, so even tor is overkill.
I was also never really big on people running bad s*** through my node. I’ve always felt better using a paid proxy then at least claims not to log, Even if there’s a half decent chance that people are watching their ingress and egress at the ISP level.
I use Librewolf and TBB. Both have NoScript enabled and JS turned off by default. I never turn on JS on TBB obviously, and for the few sites that I frequent on Librewolf, I tweaked it by hand. It’s not that hard.
I will look to also use Mullvad browser alongside Librewolf maybe, not sure which one of them is more private since Mullvad browser comes straight from the TOR project and has their security settings.
I’m using Mullvad browser for over a year on Linux and I can recommend. It’s basically TBB without TOR
Librewolf also has Tor security settings
Mull browser is decent too
So is Mullvad browser as well
For Android…
Librewolf on the desktop with Mull for mobile
Anime: Watashi ni tenshi ga maiorita
Fuck firefox. Are you sheep just going to ignore all the shit they put you through, and didn’t even explain themselves?
Firefox is a shitshow, I don’t care “how good they are now”. If you don’t remember how bad they treated you circa 2012, then fuck off groupie wanker.
Firefox is where they are for a good reason, they cannot be trusted. Only wankers keep promoting them.
To be frank, Chromium’s security is much better than Firefox and is faster as well. If Google had no monopoly over the browser market and allowed uBlock Origin, I wouldn’t really use Firefox and use something FOSS chromium based instead.
Mozilla is not a good company at all. They are a pretend privacy company while paying the bills off of your data and Google’s sponsorship.
So I am using Firefox not because it is good but to use uBlock Origin and to prevent Google’s monopoly.
So you want us to use what, Chrome or some Chrome clone? There isn’t a lot of options. That’s why Librewolf exists
If you don’t see how bad Chromium browsers are treating you circa right now then I don’t know what to say.
You hold a grudge for 12 years? Did they kick your dog or something?
Did they kick your dog or something?
I chuckled at this because I pictured John Mozilla in a black suit about to kick his dog.
Nah it was Kirpal
Oh my… I get this reference…
Well, I use them all. It depends on the services I access and the threats that affect them (and therefore me). Firefox for studying and sites that use WebGL; Librewolf for everyday browsing. Oh yeah, and there’s Tor.
I’m not paranoid. I’m Brave
They lost my trust when they altered clicked URLs to add their own referral links. Making the links you click on actually go exactly where they say is like the most basic thing browsers should be expected to do.
Hahahahahahaha.
From the maker of Palantir (facial recognition software used by nearly every police force in north america).
Funder of JD Vance,
and a good friend of putin.
Peter Thiel.
Librewolf. I yearn for something better for ios. I’m sticking woth firefox because all my tabs & shit are synced.
There isn’t going to be something better because of the locked down proprietary ecosystem. You might as well use Safari
I am using Edge on both Android and Desktop
Yes, we know. 👀
We see you touching yourself like an animal.
Then you’re practically naked
Worse, they’re scoped down both ends while inside a live streaming MRI machine.
at least they are using a chromium derivative over chrome
I’m not sure
Microsoft flavored ChromiumChromeWell now you know at least
It runs with less overhead/it’s faster
No I knew already
I was talking in terms of privacyI can’t say if telemetry is different between packages but at least on Windows there’s no reason to collect as much as Google because they collect it at the OS level
That gives potential for them collecting less on other platforms
It’s the exact opposite imo. I’d imagine that doesn’t really make a difference considering Edge is cross platform, and their goal is to collect as much data as possible.
Plus, they just collect different kinds of info through Windows. So Windows + Edge is even worse, especially since it integrates just as deeply into Windows as IE did years back.
And bald
