• Matharl
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    1 year ago

    Or even better, a fork of Firefox which disable all that telemetry crap and bundle with uBlock Origin : LibreWolf.

        • Jee
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          1041 year ago

          The original dev handed over development to a team and left, new cunts removed his name from project and made donation links, original dev came back and made ublock origin which is now the best adblock out there.

      • Matharl
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        231 year ago

        No tinkering required, technically you could achieve the same result with regular Firefox + tinkering.

        It’s as simple out of the box but with a greater focus on privacy with telemetry off and the pocket integration disabled.

        • @majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com
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          111 year ago

          Can confirm. Started using it yesterday after another comment. It’s pretty much plain FF, so works well right out of the gate. I enabled some features in the setting like Firefox sync and allow DRM media, but I’m really liking it.

          • /home/pineapplelover
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            51 year ago

            I’ve found that it might not work on banking sites because of the fingerprinting protection. Be warned, if you try to use on banking sites, you may be locked out. I suggest you do all banking and stuff on a separate browser that saves cookies and tracks you.

            • @majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com
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              31 year ago

              I don’t use banking websites, I just use the app so can’t confirm. I would imagine it’ll be down to the default cookie blocking which you can edit in the settings though if it causes issues for you

              • Nioxic
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                21 year ago

                My banks app is not as feature full as the website

            • Matharl
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              21 year ago

              I don’t have issue on my banking site but I’m not surprised, privacy settings tend to break some sites.

    • @HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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      51 year ago

      The new Mullvad browser is even better, and regularly maintained. But a little bit further down on the privacy end of the Spectrum and further from the useability end. Watch out for timezones, that one always gets me!

      • runningromeo
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        31 year ago

        Mullvad has a browser now? Sweet! I’ve been a fan of their no nonsense approach to VPN for a while now.

        • @HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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          Yeah it’s basically TOR browser without the TOR network. Created in direct collaboration with TOR.

    • @Lukecis@lemmy.world
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      41 year ago

      Fr, people need to stop the lies that firefox itself is a privacy respecting browser, which it isnt- not since it was bought out years back.

      LibreWolf and Mullvad are great examples of Firefox Forks that are ACTUALLY privacy focused browsers.

      • Woedenaz
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        71 year ago

        Bought out? Firefox was never bought out by anyone. What are you talking about?

        • @Lukecis@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          My bad, bought out was the wrong way to word it- I should have said “Made partnerships with-” then listed Google and Yahoo(defunct), China and Russia.

          If you watch this video discussing how privacy respect firefox is by default- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr8UFJzpNls you’ll see the telemetry they collect is miles long and Firefox is no better at protecting your privacy than Chrome/Chromium is whatsoever.

          Definitely recommend Librewolf or Mullvad, which are actual privacy respecting browsers, even Chromium forks like Brave are better than default firefox.

    • Sudoer777
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      31 year ago

      LibreWolf is so clean and minimal, whenever I go back to Firefox it feels bloated in comparison.