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On Linux, Firefox stores site-data in a folder named the same (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 months ago by brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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Is this behavior expected? I would imagine it would be a privacy violation in a multi-user system. I thought they had some sort of encryption for hiding the sites that I visit.

BTW, FF does not do this on private mode. But still it is concerning, that any program can know about the sites I visit just by looking at ~/.mozilla/profile/storage/default.

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[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mean, lots of problems rise from this from interoperability, debug ability, removing control & ownership of your own data...etc

Obfuscating the data means you (The user, via your own means) no longer have access to it, you cannot integrate with it, ....etc This is a problem for a project that promotes itself for openness and compatibility.

Firefox should not be solving your user level access permission problems, that's not it's job 🤦

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