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"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again (blog.privacyguides.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A custom user.js might be a good base to work off of. For example https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox

But jumping ship might be your best bet. Forks like Librewolf are good or otherwise a privacy respecting Chromium browser can work well too.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

otherwise a privacy respecting Chromium browser

With manifest v3 and this thing active on chromium browsers, privacy respecting chromium may not exist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Some browsers have built in adblock (by reimplementing mv2 apis or otherwise) and cut out the hangouts plugin or let you disable it

Not all, but a couple

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For now, that's possible. But for how long? When mv2 came out, we had a few hold off as long as they could, but now they're all v2 or v3. New technology will always kill the old, whether or not it's better. It's only a matter of time. Going with a browser that has consistently made anticonsumer decisions because a different browser has made a few, doesn't seem like the sensible choice here. Granted, we should have a browser that hadn't made any such decisions, but we don't yet have one that I'm aware (I hope I'm wrong).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Totally agree, unfortunately it's a question of whether Chromium forks can't keep up with cutting out Google stuff comes before or after Mozilla and/or their rendering engine falls apart.

Fingers crossed for Ladybird + Servo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I'm still holding out for Mozilla. They've gone all "corporate" lately, but they weren't always that way. Ladybird does look like a good project.